Friday, August 14, 2015

Python Reticulatus or Asiatic Reticulated Python is probably the longest snake on earth that possesses enormous physique and horrific attitude. Asiatic Reticulated Python is from the Python household and they can kill the human really effortlessly. They have extremely maze colour patterns on their skin and their skin is quite a lot like a net. That is why they are known as Reticulated Pythons which is a Latin word.


Asiatic Reticulated Python. Image : Rick Vink

Asiatic Reticulated Python is endemic to the rainforests of South East Asia. They are widely distributed in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines. They can vary in colors from region to region.

The average length of Asiatic Reticulated Python or Python Reticulatus is from 12-20 feet and they can develop up to 23 feet (six.35 m). Asiatic Reticulated Python are specialist swimmers and really clever and agile predator. The female Reticulated Python lays a lot more than 50 eggs per clutch and the eggs take an typical of 88 days to hatch. Hatchlings are at least 2 feet in length.


Horrible open jaw of Reticualted Python. Image : George Cruiser

There is no clear proof as a human to grow to be the victim of the Reticulated Python nonetheless the zoologists believe that an adult Python Reticulatus can easily open its jaws wide enough to swallow a human child, teenager, or even an adult.

The medium sized Reticulated Python loves to eat rodents, rats and small cats and so forth whilst the fully grown Python Raticulatus can consume comparatively large mammals like dogs, pigs and deer and so on. For a bigger prey they will take weeks time to digest it. Like all other massive snakes, Python Reticulatus, the longest snake on earth use the method of constriction and seize the prey in their coils.

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