A pair of biologists recently discovered the largest Burmese python ever found in a nature reserve southwest of Frida in the United States, a Burmese net that was lured and captured by biologists using a male reconnaissance snake implanted in the body with a positioning system.
The aircraft biologist also immediately measured and dissected the captured Burmese net and found that the Burmese body was about 5.4 meters long and weighed 198 pounds, and found in his stomach the hooves of a quadruped and another 122 developing snake eggs, that is, a female Burmese python that was pregnant. Biologists judged by the hooves of the tetrapods left in the stomach that the Burmese python's last meal should be an adult white-tailed deer.
The Burmese python found by this biologist is about 5.4 meters long, which is the longest wild Burmese python found in the United States, and it should be the wild Burmese snake king in the United States, of course, only in the United States, because from the Burmese python species, this length is not the first in the world.
The world's largest Myanmar is the Illinois Wild Snake Zoo from the United States, which is raised in captivity, with a body length of 8.2 meters and a weight of 183 kg, this Burmese python is the largest Burmese python in the world.
The Burmese python is actually a grade II protected animal on the mainland. The reason is that at the beginning of the 21st century, the Burmese python, as a large python, its body surface pattern is very beautiful, and the huge size makes it very suitable as a raw material for various leather goods. As a result, many hunters have targeted the skin of the Burmese python for hunting, peeling and illegally selling, which once led to a sharp decline in the number of Burmese pythons on the mainland.
However, unlike the mainland, the number of Burmese pythons in the United States is very large, and even to the point of flooding, resulting in the U.S. government needing to hunt Burmese pythons in large quantities every year. This is because at the end of the 20th century, but also because people have more and more demand for Burmese python skin, too much resulting in the number of manually hunted wild Burmese pythons can not meet the requirements of the market at that time
。 Therefore, at the end of the 20th century, southeast Asia and other countries and regions carried out some Burmese python farming. Unlike burmese pythons that grow in the wild, there are often colorful variants due to the large number of artificial breeds, attracting some people to raise them as domestic reptile pets. At this time, people in Southeast Asia who saw business opportunities directly carried out the hybridization of the Burmese python. For a time, the breeding of Burmese pythons has become a fashion in Southeast Asia and neighboring countries.
By the beginning of the 21st century, some Americans introduced some Burmese variants into the United States for breeding to sell to pet climbing enthusiasts, but what they did not expect was that because the Burmese python in its infancy was small in length, the pattern was very beautiful, and coupled with the various variations of the color of captivity, it was sought after by some pet climbing enthusiasts.
However, as one of the world's largest pythons, the Burmese python grows particularly fast and eats a large amount, resulting in a body length of more than ten centimeters and a small cuteness of tens of centimeters to a behemoth with a length of three or four meters. The small climbing pets, which originally ate only a small amount of food per meal, became a large pet with a body length of three or four meters and needed to eat dozens of pounds a day, which also led some people to directly release them into some nearby national parks or rivers and forests because of their concerns about funds and fear of hurting people.
After Burma was busy entering the wild, because it was a high-level predator, it did not encounter other natural enemies in the wild at that time, resulting in a surge in the number of Burmese pythons and becoming an invasive species. Not only other herbivores, but even local alligators in the United States are sometimes preyed upon by Burmese pythons, especially in Florida, the most populous state, where the famous herbivore white-tailed deer has plummeted by 94% after experiencing a burmese python flood. As a direct result, the U.S. government had to issue an order to hunt down Burmese hats every year.
The U.S. government has tried to stop the sharp decline in native species caused by the invasion of Burmese python species. Actively dispatch relevant biologists to do targeted hunting of larger Burmese pythons, while for other ordinary Burmese pythons set up a campaign called the Snake Hunting Competition, and the government also set up a special reward of $2500, attracting hundreds of people to participate. But from the time of this regulation to the present, the number of Myanmar nets has not been effectively controlled.
Summary: From the current situation in the United States, we can conclude that before raising some native animals and plants that have never existed, we need to consider whether we will do some harm to the native organisms and the ecological environment, such as the water hyacinth introduced before the mainland is to improve the water pollution in the Yangtze River Basin and other areas, but what we did not expect is that after the introduction, because the environment is too suitable for the growth of water hyacinth, resulting in a long period of time, the water hyacinth flooded in the Yangtze River Basin and other places. It has seriously affected the survival of native plants and animals on the mainland. Therefore, we also need to remember that the introduction of extra-native organisms needs to be cautious.