BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: Largest Snake

Thanks reader for loving the space so much, your love towards blog motivates me to keep doing searches various species. Let me tell you that in a couple of weeks you will get a big trip review so keep visiting the space for some exciting report in coming time.

Let me tell you even today’s topic is equally exciting because of various reason which I will disclose step by step. As routine I dipped into my wilderness studio where I got one small video that took me to my second trip to the wild “Ranthambore” and that’s it today’s topic got finalized. The kind of experience we had with Python is just unmatched and luckiest one, let’s see why it is so special to me in the next section.

The Thriller

While writing I can feel that thriller today as well, the trip was special because of such thrilling experience we had. It was my just second trip and as an immature wildlife traveler tiger sighting was core priority with this mindset we started morning safari of in zone 2. Most of us were eager to see Tiger for the first time and hence all of us were ready with high on energy to enter the gate. Just after gate-checking our driver came running and said “Sir jaldi Karo Python ne kill Kiya hai” immediately we all were ready to trigger the button and said lets go fast.

The spot was very close so we reached in quick time the moment we reached we saw a huge python of around 12 feet was roaming around near the kill, it was deer that was killed by Python hardly 15 minutes time and hence it was roaming near dead dear to cleaning it up. We saw the drama for around 10 minutes and we moved ahead for tiger but our other gyp had more patience than us so they waited there for more time in anticipation of some unique stuff to happen. Their patience was rewarding as they could see Python dragging the dear to eat. Isn’t it thrilling? It was not only thrilling but it was rarest of the rare sighting because sighting a Python itself is rare and to see it with kill is extremely rare. This is the first time we realize that it is not only tiger but each species is important and can give you one of the best time ever. I hope you enjoyed the thriller, now let me disclose some facts about Python which is equally unique.

Fantastic facts

Python or Python molurus is a large, non-venomous python species which is also known by some common name such as Indian python, black-tailed python, and Indian rock python

Indian Pythons have heat-sensitive pits on their upper lip that detect the prey

The Indian Python is among one of the largest snakes found in the world. The newly born Indian Pythons are 18-24 inches long. They shed for the first time in a period of 10 days and their growth rate is very high during their first year. Adults can grow up to 20ft long with an average weight of 40 to 60kg. In some rare case, they can reach up to 30ft with weight more than 100kg

Pythons are nocturnal and prefer to kill at night, prey is tracked by its scent, and then python can locate and kill the prey by watching its movements and sensing its body heat. When prey is caught, the python use its coils to suffocate and crush the prey to death

Constrictors (a snake that kills by coiling around its prey and suffocating it) are different from other snakes because they have two lungs instead of the one common in other species

Constricting snakes, including the Indian python, have pelvic bones connected to vestigial leg bones, called spurs, that provide a clue to their past as animals that once walked on legs. The Indian python uses spurs during breeding but not for locomotion

The animal lays up to 100 eggs, which are protected and incubated by the female. Towards this end, they are capable of raising their body temperature above the ambient level through muscular contractions. The hatchlings are 45–60 cm (18–24 in) in length and grow quickly

I hope you enjoyed the details of dangerous python, it is difficult to sight a python but if you get chance to see then don’t miss out on taking out pictures and share the same with me on btwildart@gmail.com

Threats to Survival

They are endangered species and face threats from leopards, crocodiles, tigers and mainly humans. They are becoming extinct because of being killed for their skin to make accessories like wallet, boots, etc., for their meat, their medicinal value and also because they are sold in Zoo. Another major reason for their extinction is because of cutting down of trees for lumber and for making homes which leaves these pythons homeless

The Tamil Nadu government is now protecting pythons and products made out of the Indian Pythons are now banned