Introduction: Most people may shudder when it comes to pythons. Indeed, its icy body temperature and intimidating appearance. Just looking at it can make people feel uncomfortable, let alone face it directly. I believe that there was a very classic science fiction film before the plague of pythons has made many people have a little shadow on the species of pythons. A giant python of the size that scientists have studied in the movie will certainly not exist, but how big can a python grow in life? So let's take a look at it together
However, a giant python is reminiscent of Indonesia. As a total area of 10% of the world's tropical rainforest, Indonesia contains many biological species, of which snake resources are also very rich, which also led to the largest number of monty python events found in Indonesia.
In recent times, there have been relevant media reports in Polavan County, Riau Province, Indonesia. Some villagers claimed that there was a giant python, and then reported to the relevant departments, the relevant departments according to the trace analysis, it is indeed a huge python, and then sent a snake catcher to cooperate with the relevant personnel to carry out trapping activities. After the trace detection, it was finally locked in a tree trunk in the rainforest, they first tried to knock the trunk, tried to lure out the python, but did not succeed, and then sent someone to move its trunk, causing the python to leave the hole, and then the snake catcher also immediately swung a cloth in front of the python, luring the python to bite, and then the rest of the villagers and related personnel pounced on it and successfully arrested it. The python was measured to be about 9 meters long, and this is not the first time that a python of this length has been arrested in Indonesia.
In fact, as early as 18 years ago, there was a case of python swallowing on Muna Island in Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, and local residents also immediately made an alarm. Then about a hundred villagers assisted the police in the search, and finally succeeded in finding a very bloated snake, and successfully found the body of the deceased in the displacement after putting aside, 24 of the body is also quite complete, but the whole body has been very frighteningly corroded, and then the measurement of the human-devouring python found to be more than 8 meters long.
In fact, one of the most famous reports of giant pythons in Indonesia is that a giant python with a length of 14.85 meters was found in a primeval forest near Sumatra, and people caught it and named it osmanthus flower, but in fact, this is a rumor, as early as 2014, after the length measurement of the relevant personnel, it was found that the so-called osmanthus flower was actually only about 7 meters, weighing less than 100 kilograms.
However, the relevant reports of the media are not particularly true, in the biological community recognized that the longest python is actually a reticulated python, and there is already a Guinness World Record, for the longest python is included, its length is 7.67m, the weight is 158.8kg, which shows that the snakes reported above are actually some media exaggerated ingredients.
Snakes are divided into venomous snakes and non-venomous snakes according to this characteristic of their poisonous and non-venomous snakes. The hunting methods of these two snakes are also very different, poisonous snakes will inject venom into the prey after attacking the prey, and then immediately release, waiting for the prey to die and then wrapping the prey forward to devour, while non-venomous snakes like pythons will rely on their strong muscles to directly wrap after biting the prey, and then devour the prey after wrapping it to death.
As a cold-blooded animal, pythons cannot regulate the temperature in the body like thermostatic animals, which also leads to the fact that they must rely on the temperature of the environment to control their metabolism, so snakes mainly live in some areas with relatively high temperatures, such as tropical rainforests, which is why large pythons can often be found in Indonesia.
Can a python grow to the length mentioned above? In fact, it is unlikely, according to Bergman's law, the lower the ambient temperature of the same species, the larger its body size will be compared to the size of hot areas, its scientific basis is that cold climate will delay the growth rate of constant temperature animals, so that its sexual maturity time becomes later, so the body size will become larger, the larger the volume of the same substance at the same temperature, the slower the heat dissipation will be, which is not conducive to the growth of the species.
Summary: According to Bergman's law, it can be inferred that the current ambient temperature of the earth can not give birth to such a large snake, and the well-known Titan python body size can reach nearly 13m, and their birth is also related to the environment at that time, because the global temperature at that time was 5 to 8 ° C higher than now, which also led to the Titan python's body can continue to grow larger, but also lead to the hot environment can only allow the Titan python to live in the water, so the current environment is not enough to support the python to grow to such a large size.