Burmese Python

Python molurus

Description

Burmese python color pattern is whitish or yellowish with the blotched patterns varying from tan to dark brown shades. This varies with terrain and habitat. Specimens from the hill forests of Western Ghats and Assam are darker, while those from the Deccan Plateau and Eastern Ghats are usually lighter. Non venomous spesies.

Population Size

Stable

Life Span

-

WEIGHT​

30.5 g

LENGTH

Reaches 7 meters

Aq

Aquatic

Ar

Arboreal

Ca

Carnivore

No

Nocturnal

Te

Terrestrial

Classification

KINGDOM

:

Animalia

PHYLUM

:

Chordata

CLASS

:

Reptilia

ORDER

:

Squamata

FAMILY

:

Pythonidae

GENUS

:

Python

SPECIES

:

Python molurus

Distribution

In Bali live on savannah and monsoon forest and around Bali Barat National Park, and the area around the town of Gilimanuk, including backyards. Suitable savannah habitat extends as far east as Pura Melanting Buleleng. Elsewhere in its range known from various forest types, including rain forest, up to 900 m asl.

Geography

Continents : Asia

Country : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, southeast Asia to Thailand north of The Kra Isthmus, sout-eastern China, east Java, Bali, Sulawesi and Sumbawa.

Habits and Lifestyle

Generally activity on the ground and / or in water, but these snakes often climb trees to hunt or sunbathe. Around Gilimanuk, he often preys on native chickens. According to residents, pythons are almost never seen during the dry season and are most often found moving around at night after heavy rains.

Lifestyle

Terrestrial, Arboreal and Aquatic

Biome

Tropical Forest

Climate Zone

Tropical

Diet and Nutrition

Burmese python is carnivores, they eat on medium and large mammals (including livestock), birds, and large reptiles such as monitor lizards.

Diet : Carnivores

Mating Habits

This species reproduces by laying eggs, the female can produce 30-60 eggs, which are placed in rock caves or large tree holes. the eggs will hatch after being incubated for 60 – 80 days. The female incubates the eggs by wrapping herself around them. this species is known as parthenogenetic reproduction

Reproduction session : –

Incubation periods : 60 – 80 days

Independent age : at birth

Baby name : –

Baby carrying : 30 – 60 eggs

Population

Population status : Vulnerable

NE

DD

LC

NT

VU

EN

CR

EW

EX

Population threats​

This species is under threat due to illegal trade; in China it has been heavily impacted by overexploitation for food and skins, the latter for use both in leather and in traditional musical instruments such as Erheen, Sanxian and hand drums (CITES 2011) and Vietnamese populations are under pressure from a combination of use in food and leather production, export to supply the pet trade, and consumption in snake wine. Similar pressures are presumed to account for the rarity of this species throughout the remainder of its range, for which no quantitative data is available.

Population number​

This snake is conservatively estimated to have declined by at least 30% over the past ten years across its global range as a result of over-harvesting for a variety of uses, to some extent compounded by the effects of habitat loss, and with the drivers of this decline not having ceased. It is therefore listed as Vulnerable.

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Reference

  1. Stuart, B., Nguyen, T.Q., Thy, N., Grismer, L., Chan-Ard, T., Iskandar, D., Golynsky, E. & Lau, M.W.N. 2012. Python bivittatus (errata version published in 2019). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T193451A151341916
  2. Python molurus article
  3. Somaweera, R. 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide To The Reptiles and Amphibians of Bali. John Beaufoy Publishing, Oxford, England.
  4. McKay, J.L. 2006. Reptil and Amphibi di Bali. Krieger Publishing Company, Florida, USA.