Wildlife Python Reticulatus

Python Reticulatus, also known as the (Asiatic) reticulated python, is a species of python found in Southeast Asia. Adults can grow up to 6.95 m (22.8 ft) in length but normally grow an average of 3-6 m (10-20 ft). They are the world's longest snakes and longest reptile, but not the heaviest built. Like all snakes, they are nonvenomous constrictors and normally not considered dangerous to humans. Although large specimens are powerful enough to kill an adult human, attacks only occasionally reported.

Excellent swimmer, Python reticulatus has been reported far out at sea and has colonized a small island in the coverage. Specific name, reticulatus, is the Latin meaning "like nets", or reticulated, and is a reference to the complex color pattern.

This species is a native of Asia's largest snake. In general, the reticulated python with the length of more than 6 m (20 ft) are rare, although according to the Guinness Book of World Records is a snake that still exist only to regularly exceed length.One from specimens largest scientifically measured, that of Kota Kinabalu, East Sarawak, Indonesia, measured by anesthesia in 6.95 m (22.8 ft) and weighs 59 kg (130 lb) after not eating for 3 months. Extensive published data from specimens that reported a few meters further unconfirmed.

Even what is widely accepted as the serpent had "just" the largest measured, that being the Colossus, a man kept in Highland Park Zoo (now Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950s and the early 1960s, with reported peak length 8.7 m (29 ft), recently found to be incorrect. When Colossus died, 14 April 1963, his body was kept at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

At that time frame is measured and found to be 20 ft 10 in (6.35 m) in total length, significantly shorter than previous measurements published by Barton and Allen. Apparently, they have added an additional foot to the measurement to compensate for the "kinks", because it is virtually impossible to completely straighten an extremely large live python. Too large to be defended with formaldehyde and then stored in alcohol, the specimen is not completed as disartikulasi framework. The hide is sent to a laboratory for tanned, but unfortunately it is lost or destroyed.

A number of reports have been made of larger snakes, but because no one has been measured by scientists also not been kept in a museum specimens, they should be regarded as proven and probably false. Regardless of what for many years standing offer of $ 50,000 for a snake, healthy life for a 9.1 m (30 ft) long by the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), known since 1993 as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) there is no attempt to claim this prize ever made.The color pattern is a complex geometric pattern that incorporates different colors. The back usually have irregular shapes of diamonds, flanked by a small sign with the lighting. Geographical range of this species in ', many variations of size, color, and general symptoms occur.

At the zoo color patterns may seem tacky, but in the middle of the dark forest of fallen leaves and debris it allows them to virtually disappear. Pronounced color interfere, protecting them from predators and help them to capture prey.

Smooth dorsal scales are arranged in 69-79 rows at midbody. There are deep holes in the upper labials anterior 4, at 2 or 3 lower labials anterior, and in five or six lower labials posterior.