Gonzo The Gopher Snake Eats Five More Mice

Pythons are one of the world's more primitive snake species, one on each side of its anus small claw-like traces of degraded residual limb in. Although this hind legs can not walk, but they can move freely. Body color black, cloud-like markings on the back there is a chloasma, flanked by a yellow stripe pattern.

Python is the world's largest snake species in one, up to 5 to 11 meters, the largest weighing 50 to 160 kg, is a non-toxic snakes.

Pythons have twining, climbing to the usual body wrapped around the tree trunk, but also good at swimming. Hi hot cold, the optimum temperature 35 ~ 55 ℃, 20 ℃, less active, 15 ℃ numb state at the beginning, as the temperature continues to drop to 15-16 ℃ and death; in the strong sunlight for too long has died. Python feeding more than 25 ℃, the hibernation period of 4 to 5 months, after a sting in the spring, started its activities after sunrise. Summer temperatures often hide in the shade, in nocturnal predator. Breeding period is short, for 4 to 6 months per year. Reproductive rates peak in late April to late May, oviparous females lay eggs every 12 to 50, the egg white and weighs about 30 grams. There crouching female python eggs heap habits, then do not eat, the body heat, body temperature rises a few degrees higher than usual, in favor of the eggs hatched.

Python diet often small deer, wild boar, rabbit, squirrel and poultry for food; appetite, a weight equal to the weight to be swallowed with or exceed the weight of the animal, such as Guangxi Wuzhou Foreign Trade warehouse 1960 acquisition of a 10 kg weight python, devoured 15 kg pigs. Digestion and strong, except fur prey outside, can be digested, but after a few months can not eat three square meals.

Python catch prey, regardless of their body size, all parties put their prey without chewing swallow. This way python swallowed mainly from the special structure of their jaw. Their next two parts of bone from each other independent of the composition, the two parts can be alternating movement, in order to better eating, python erected predecessor in the same time, his mouth wide open big, bite their prey, and then close the upper and lower jaw, followed by make Each rotation of the jaw movement. If you then have a biological attack to it, it will immediately spit out the food has been swallowed belly got away.

In a surprise attack bite prey, with the body wrapped tightly, forcing the heart to stop the blood flow prey to stop the flow of blood and cause of death (that is, make prey of heart failure cause blood to stop the supply) (derived python wrapped prey because so prey blood Stop the flow of death, it has such a capability, rather than suffocate said before).

Python is wrapped around the feeders, attacking prey, when the first step is to take advantage of around the upper body. Python's body is very special, you can feel the heartbeat of the location of prey. It will force all around with the heartbeat. The more and more tightly wrapped, the more and more tightly wrapped, the body can not prey blood, it can not absorb oxygen. Respiratory failure, cardiac arrest!

Gonzo The Gopher Snake Eats Five More Mice