The temperature continues to rise, wild snakes have also begun to become active, frequently appearing in the mirror, in Nan'an City, Meishan Town, Xinlan Village, a 2-meter-long cauliflower snake broke into the rabbit cage of the farmer's home, in the Chenzhou Yongxing County Zheng International Community, there is another 2-meter-long snake at night sneaking into the bed of the fourth-floor household.
3.8 m long reticulated python mirror
Recently, the most eye-catching is a giant python in an industrial park in Longgang District, Shenzhen, weighing 50 pounds, 3.8 meters long, workers inadvertently found it when inspecting the steam pipe, was startled, it is hiding in the nest below the steam pipe, the snake is a warm animal, before the summer has not officially arrived, the snake needs to find a place with a higher temperature to inhabit.
It is understood that the giant python in Longgang District, Shenzhen has been confirmed by experts, it is one of the largest python species in the world, the reticulated python, it is said that the length of the reticulated python can reach 10 meters, the weight can reach hundreds of kilograms, so now on this matter to talk about the frightening python.
The Amazon rainforest in South America is the world's largest forest, known as the "lungs of the earth", a large area of rainforest belongs to no man's land, humans have never entered, has become the largest animal world on the earth, it is said that the Amazon rainforest has a giant python hidden deep, many movies are also filmed like this, so how big is the largest?
How big is the Amazon Rainforest Python?
It should be noted that the reticulated python is one of the largest pythons in the world, but it is mainly distributed in Southeast Asian countries and continents, especially in countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, but there is no reticulated python found in the Amazon rainforest, which is because different snakes have different requirements for their habitat.
However, the Amazon rainforest is home to the world's largest python species, the Green Forest Hopper, do you know how big the Green Forest Hopper is?
On April 6, 2017, the Peruvian Amazon Conservation Project team found a python in the Amazon rainforest, 2.9 meters long and weighing 35 kilograms, which was identified by animal experts as a juvenile green forest python, not a giant python, if adult, the length can grow to 6 meters and weigh more than 100 kilograms.
In 1978, herpetologist William W. Lamar encountered a 7.5-meter-long female green borer in Colombia weighing 180 kilograms.
However, there are records that people have found the largest python in the Amazon rainforest, with a body length of 8.43 meters, a maximum circumference of 1.11 meters, and a weight of 227 kilograms, which is the heaviest python on record, compared with the reticulated python, the weight exceeds the reticulated python, which is the largest python in the Amazon rainforest.
The reticulated python is relatively thin and long, and the green forest ant is relatively fat and short, and if you want to talk about the weight, it must be the green forest borer that is better, if you want to talk about the length, it must be that the reticulated python is better. According to common sense, the most important comparison method of a thing is not big, than mass, so the green forest grasshopper is undoubtedly the largest python in the world.
However, if the Titan python in the Amazon rainforest had not become extinct, the green forest borer could not have been the leader of the snake world, it is said that the Titan python can grow to 14.3 meters long, the maximum weight of 1135 kg, this snake appeared in the middle and late Paleocene, about 58 million years ago and 600,000 years ago.
At that time, the dinosaurs had just been extinct, so the Titan Python became the top predator on land, and some studies found that the Titan Python was not only not a land animal, it was also possible to prey on large fish. It is puzzling that the Titan Python, as the top predator on land, has not experienced the mass extinction of the earth's species, why did it suddenly perish?
Got it! The Amazon rainforest does contain giant pythons, but the longest is only 8.43 meters, not as big as shown in science fiction movies, tens of meters long.
What should I do if I encounter a python?
Pythons are not poisonous, because it does not need to use poison to kill the prey, relying on strong body muscles tightly wrapped around the animal, the tighter the entanglement, so that the prey suffocates to death, the python then swallows the animal in its entirety, relying on super digestion ability to slowly digest the animal, if it is a large animal, the python needs to digest for several months after swallowing.
Giant pythons can not eat for months, once they eat, they can eat food as heavy as their own weight, snakes are the big stomach king of the animal kingdom, and any large animal dares to eat.
In August 2021, a Thai farmer found a missing cow in the belly of a python, a cow that was nearly adult, and unexpectedly a 100-kilogram cow was swallowed by a python weighing only a few tens of kilograms. In September 2021, a snake-eating incident occurred in Guanghui Village, Zengcheng, Guangzhou, where farmers found a python in Houshan devouring a newly born calf.
Pythons even dare to swallow cows, let alone people, there are indeed records of pythons devouring people in the world, in 2017, a 25-year-old man in Sulawesi, Indonesia, disappeared after working in the fields, if people find it in a python, it shows that the python can indeed swallow people.
So what to do if you encounter a giant python? The most correct way is to stay away from it as much as possible, and then call for help, let the professionals solve the problem, do not try to drive it away, the python is not poisonous, but the power is infinite, as long as it is entangled, without the help of others will be in danger of life, unless there is a weapon in hand.