python - snake, anaconda with rival for the title of the longest and largest in the world.Due to the fact that today there is no accurate and reliable measurements, the controversy continues.It should be noted that the reticulated python can reach a length of up to ten meters.This allowed him to maintain a prolonged period of championship.However, some time ago there was a fixed length of the anaconda - eleven meters and forty-three centimeters.She began to take first place.
python skin along the back has a spot light brown rounded rhombic shape.They are limited by the sides of the toothed band of dark brown color.This strip consists in its turn of triangular patches connected to each other, with small fields light shade.
reticulated python distributed on the territory of the Greater Sunda Islands, through Southeast Asia from Southern Burma to the Southern Philippines, in the areas of the Lesser Sunda and Molucca (including the island of Timor) Islands.
Reptiles live in dense forests and cultivated areas.Sometimes reticulated python is found on the banks of rivers and in the courts of major cities.
Experts note their tendency to climb trees.In addition, the reticulated python fine floating in the rivers and in the open seas.In this regard, they probably spread through the territory of all the small islands of the Sunda archipelago.
reticulated python was the first animal that settled in Karatau after a major eruption in 1888.
eats it, as a rule, small rodents and hoofed animals, reptiles and various birds.In addition, the diet includes python and domestic animals: chickens, dogs, goats, pigs and other animals of medium size.Despite the fact that this reptile is considered dangerous to humans, reliably documented cases of attacks on humans do not.As a rule, the python avoids meeting people.This is mainly due to the fact that the adult, by its dimensions it is not suitable as food.The biggest prey that python swallows, and then only with great difficulty, are the goats and pigs.
Females lay from ten to one hundred eggs, of which overlook the snake length of about sixty centimeters.Cubs grow fast enough.On the fourth or fifth year they have already reach a length of three meters and become sexually mature.
Captive reticulated pythons different short duration of life - not more than twenty-one years.The animals are kept in a horizontal terrarium.This is due to the fact that they are mostly terrestrial life.The size of the cage depends on the size of the snake.As a rule, the size of his erect 500h500h300 centimeters.In the terrarium a few strong branches.This allows to take full advantage of the entire volume of the container.The temperature of the animals is from twenty-eight to thirty-two degrees Centigrade during the day.
level of humidity in the terrarium should be high enough.To do this, carry out spraying, use vlagozaderzhivayuschie ground or embed pool.
