Yunnan Nan rolling river national nature reserve ushered in a rare scene, found a large creature, that is, the discovery of 5 meters long adult python, and also took a video of the picture, only to see a thick python crawling in the video, the body length of about 5 meters, the thickest part of the python's body is about the same as the adult thigh.
The current python in Yunnan also shows the superiority of the local environment, large pythons can generally live for decades, and it is speculated that this python has lived for about 30 years, which is already a very long life, because the python also grew up from a small snake, and the vast majority of pythons are hunted by other animals in their infancy or die due to other natural factors. And there are such large pythons in the jungles of Yunnan, there will be more giant pythons that are smaller than it, and pythons need more food, which also shows that there are more wild animals in Yunnan.
Snakes are a frightening creature for humans, because this animal must have pit humans a lot in ancient times. Because snakes are legless reptiles, most of the time snakes crawl not fast, only when fleeing or attacking will be very fast, plus they are cold-blooded animals, the energy supply is not as long-lasting as mammals, and cold-blooded animals can not maintain body temperature, long-term activity will lead to increased body temperature and then threaten to limit activity.
Therefore, snakes like to hide in the shadows, attack when their prey is not paying attention, and defend themselves when threatened. In the primitive era, humans had to go to the woods to collect fruits, and they also needed to go in and out of the jungle and hunt in the grassland, and there was certainly no way to avoid encounters with snakes, and it didn't matter if they were bitten by ordinary snakes, they were bitten by poisonous snakes to either die or be maimed. So many people have a natural fear of snakes, although it is difficult to meet in life, when they see snakes, they still can't help but feel cold inside, most people in the world have not touched snakes, and the body of snakes is not cold, but a little warm feeling.
Yunnan's geographical environment leads to the climate characteristics of Yunnan mainly include subtropical monsoon climate, tropical monsoon climate, plateau mountain climate, in addition to the alpine mountain climate is relatively cold, subtropical monsoon climate, tropical monsoon climate, etc. are snake paradise, these places all year round climate is suitable, will not be very cold, will not be very hot. So there are many kinds of snakes in Yunnan, and there are king cobras that can grow more than three meters. What should I do if I encounter a python in the jungle?
Pythons are a type of snake with a large weight, so they move more slowly, but if they encounter pythons, they usually do not notice the python hidden in the plant cluster in a sudden situation. However, the characteristics of the python cold-blooded animal determine that it will not hit at will, they attack mainly for food, in the face of animals larger than their own size is very dangerous, some professional snake catchers will constantly harass the python when catching pythons to consume its physical strength, when its body temperature rises when the ability to weaken the ability to easily catch.
Pythons do not randomly attack animals larger than themselves, which will bring a lot of risk to itself. Therefore, when encountering a python, if you accidentally directly threaten the safety of the python and are attacked, there is nothing to say. At this time, you must guard against your arm being entangled, the power of the snake entanglement is very large, but as long as you keep the arm flexible, people still have the opportunity to break the snake in the direction of the snake entanglement, as long as you can fight for a certain period of time, the snake will be very tired and give up.
If you just encounter a python, it is better to do it, pull away, one is to leave the snake's attack range, and then it makes the snake feel that there is no threat, it will also let down its vigilance and let go of the posture of self-defense attack. Most of the time it crawls on its own, rather than chasing people, and the python's crawling speed is not an advantage. They can only crawl about 8 miles per hour, which is similar to the speed of people walking, and if people run, they may not be able to catch up.
The most taboo thing about encountering a python is probably blind boldness to tease it, and the means of python attacking and hunting is to bite and then pull the entire body around it, and a snake of two or three meters can strangle people to death. The weight of the python is very large, can weigh dozens of kilograms, the strength is also very strong, if there is no experience is entangled that is not dead, as people exhale each breath the body snake tightens tighter and tighter, people only have the air out of the air without entering the breath, will soon suffocate to death.
Pythons are a relatively docile animal, so there will be many people who breed pythons as pets, but snakes can not appreciate human feelings, they stay in a place where food is usually abundant, surrounded by more familiar creatures that do not threaten its safety. Even so, if you do not pay attention when feeding, the food fed by the snake is closer to you, and you may still be bitten by the snake, because they do not rely on the eyes, but on the smell, etc., so they cannot be clearly located to us humans, usually attacking a range.