Among the six giant snakes, the reticulated python is considered to be the longest snake in the world, with a body length of 8-9 meters, the green forest borer is considered to be the heaviest snake in the world, with a maximum weight of up to 160 kg, and the Burmese python is highly adaptable and widely distributed. Recently, a huge python was captured in Florida, usa, with a body length of about 5.48 meters and a weight of about 195 kilograms, which is the heaviest Burmese python in the local data, and is a veritable "snake king".
Adult Burmese pythons generally weigh 14-75 kg, close to 100 kg of Burmese pythons are rarely found, the reason why this Burmese python is so heavy, on the one hand, is a female in the pregnant Burmese python, the body is also pregnant with more than 120 snake eggs, at the same time in the snake belly also found incomplete digestion of the remains of white-tailed deer, swallowing an adult white-tailed deer, so that the female Burmese python weight increased a lot.
The Burmese python that becomes the "snake king" will be more vigilant, but this time facing the high technology of the researchers, the researchers installed a radio transmitter on the body of a male Burmese snake, so that it became a human "reconnaissance snake", the female python was found by the same kind, and finally captured. As the Burmese python is an exotic species in Florida, the python will be euthanized.
- Burmese pythons are rampant in Florida
Burmese python native to Southeast Asia, generally inhabit the tropical, subtropical low mountain jungle, wild python hunting ability is strong, reproductive ability is also strong, the number of eggs can be as many as 100 snake eggs, if there is no natural enemy, python is easy to flood, Florida is the burmese python flooding area.
In Florida, some people like to raise snakes as pets, the Burmese python as a pet snake introduced, but some pet Burmese pythons flee, release, or abandoned and other reasons, are released to the swamp, the swamp is in line with the survival of the Burmese python, in addition to a few predators such as crocodiles will hunt pythons, there are no other predators, so that the number of Burmese pythons increased rapidly.
Burmese python hunting ability is too strong, in the python has been found in mammals, birds, reptiles, etc., Burmese python hunting prey will not be picky, can swallow on the line, resulting in a sharp decline in native Wildlife in the United States. According to statistics, there are about 300,000 Burmese pythons in the whole of Florida, and the actual number is far more than that, so that the United States has to organize a large number of manpower, regularly organize the hunting of pythons, and the invasion of pythons as an alien species has caused a serious disaster in the wetland park.
- The Burmese python is a Grade II protected animal in the country
Burmese pythons flood in the United States, and the country belongs to the protection of animals, in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Hainan, etc. is also a relatively common snake, because China is also the origin of the Burmese python, belongs to the native snakes, is not an exotic creature, naturally there are natural enemies of the balance, when the Burmese python also belongs to the small snake, snake egg and other stages, but also a lot of cats, birds of prey and other food, Burmese python can not flood.
In terms of ecology, pythons also play an important role, small pythons will catch rodents and other harmful animals, large pythons can control the number of small wild boars, to a certain extent, can control the number of these animals with strong reproductive ability.
All wild pythons are protected animals, but wild pythons were adjusted from national first-level protected wild animals to national second-level wild animals in February 2021, which are still protected animals and illegal capture and injury are prohibited.
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