According to local media reports in the United States on June 23, the Southwest Florida Conservancy captured the largest Burmese python in U.S. history at the beginning of this year, this giant Burmese python is 5.4 meters long and weighs 195 kilograms, which weighs the same weight as two adults, and the largest Burmese python previously captured was a female Burmese python weighing 168 kilograms. According to an analysis by a wildlife scientist, this Burmese python is a female python, and its lifespan may exceed 15 years, or even more than 20 years.
The giant Burmese python was spotted in Florida's Everglades National Park last December, and three captors struggled with it for 20 minutes to subdue it. After the python was finally carried to the research base by 3 researchers, the researchers arrived at the base only to find that the Burmese python had died, so in April this year, the scientists conducted an autopsy, and at the time of the autopsy, it was found that the Burmese python still had 122 snake eggs hidden in its abdomen, and at the same time, the researchers also found the remains of the white-tailed deer in the abdomen, which is very likely to indicate that the Burmese python died before the last meal and possibly an adult white-tailed deer.
The largest snakes in the world
In fact, the Burmese python is not the largest snake, the largest snake in existence is the water nymph living in the Amazon rainforest of South America, the adult water nymph body length of about 5-10 meters, the weight can easily exceed 220 kg or more, the water nymph likes to live in the water, mainly prey on large mammals, such as: deer, wild boar, capybaras, tapirs and other large mammals, sometimes they can also strangle crocodiles, jaguars and other beasts of prey, and even in South America there are legends of devouring humans.
The second largest size among snakes is the reticulated python, this python is mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, adult reticulated python body length can exceed 8 meters, once someone in Borneo, Indonesia, the body length of more than 14.85 meters reticulated python, this reticulated python is found in borneo Indonesia and Malaysia border of the primeval forest, the local people will be caught this reticulated python sold to the park, the park management named this reticulated python "osmanthus flower", this reticulated python is also known as " Osmanthus Python".
Burmese pythons are the third largest snake in the world, and Burmese pythons are mainly distributed in the Indochina Peninsula, the Malay Peninsula, the northern Part of the Indian Peninsula and the southern part of the mainland. Adult Burmese pythons are generally about 5-7 meters long and can weigh about 90 kilograms. The longest myanmar python on record is 9.75 meters long. Burmese pythons are national second-level protected animals in the mainland, while in the United States are invasive species, anyone can hunt this invasive species, and sometimes as a bounty hunter, after all, in Florida, the local government will reward some python hunters to encourage them to hunt burmese pythons that invade the United States.
Can a 5-meter Burmese python eat people?
Burmese pythons in large snakes can be said to be relatively docile, in europe and the United States many countries like to burmese pythons as pets, there is no record in the historical record that Burmese pythons have eaten humans, the main reason is because the Burmese python is too small to swallow an adult human.
The only snakes capable of devouring humans are water nymphs and reticulated pythons, but reticulated pythons have been documented to confirm their ability to devour humans. In 1995, a horrific tragedy occurred in Malaysia, when Yu Xingquan, a 29-year-old Chinese man, was attacked by a hungry reticulated python in a rubber plantation, which happened in the evening of local time, the man sat alone in the rubber plantation, and a hungry reticulated python was ambushed in the nearby grass, because the sky was dark, the man did not find the reticulated python lying next to him, and the man sat on the ground to make his body more petite, which was just in line with the target of the reticulated python attack. When the brother of the deceased was looking for his missing brother in the rubber plantation, he found that the reticulated python was devouring the deceased, and the police who came behind were shooting the murderous python, but unfortunately the Chinese man had no sign of life.
Since reticulated pythons, which are smaller than water nymphs, have the ability to strangle humans, water nymphs can naturally also have the ability to devour humans. It is only because large water nymphs inhabit the inaccessible Amazon rainforests of South America, and the occurrence of water nymph cannibalism in the depths of the inaccessible rainforests naturally cannot be confirmed by modern technical records. Many sightings have confirmed that some water nymphs are more than 10 meters in size, and the Amazon rainforest in South America is the best preserved original rainforest in the world, many places are forbidden by humans, and those rainforests are very likely to have man-eating water nymphs in the depths. Indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest have been living in the Amazon rainforest for generations to pass down the legend of giant water nymphs eating people, and these legends of local indigenous people are likely to be based on what happened in life, rather than being empty.