If you’ve never seen a reticulated python before, you will be amazed at how the scales are moving in your favor. The python is a snake that was first discovered in South America and is endemic to this region of South America. The species is found in the Amazon and northern Brazil and has been around since the time of the dinosaurs.
The rete of the python is a dense and tough skin that is built like a tank (think tank) and can grow to be six feet long. When I was in South America I could pull a reticulated python out of its water and drop it back into the water, but I can’t do that here. Plus, the reticulated python is more of a “slow” snake, which means it is more difficult to catch.
Like with any reptile, it is best to kill the python when you can, so it is best to take the opportunity to learn how to do so. For those who are not aware, a python can be easily killed simply by stabbing it on the head with a sharp implement. The problem with this is that a single stab could easily kill you, but if you do it over a period of time you will develop a more deadly wound.
I’ve said this before, probably too many times, but the python has a very strange and unique pattern that it repeats for a very long time. I’ve never actually seen a python repeat the pattern it does, but I can still imagine that it would be very difficult to kill one of these creatures by stabbing it in the head. It is as though the python is more of a snake than a python, a slow snake with a slow death.
Well, I believe that the “python” is actually a reticulated python, a very large, slow snake with a slow death. It is not as though we are talking about a python here, but a large, slow snake with a slow death.
Reticulated pythons are a type of python that have an extra pair of legs or a tail, and they can grow to huge sizes, often reaching several feet in length; in the case of the one you see above, it is believed to be about 1,000 feet long. In this case, the python is most likely a reticulated python, one of the largest of the python family.
It is not uncommon to see reticulated pythons in the wild in areas where large areas of land have been cleared out or where there is more than one species of python. We just recently saw a large reticulated python hanging out in a field one day, and it was at least 30 feet long, so you’d think that would be enough to kill you, or at least scare you into submission.
To be fair, the python that we saw hanging out in the field had a different look to it, a more sinister one. This is good because there are other ways to kill a python besides stabbing it in the head. The python that hung out in the field had this very scary look to it, and the one that we saw had the look of a very scared cat.
It’s hard to say how dangerous this python was. We saw one that was obviously very sharp and had a very nasty look to it, but we didn’t see any that we felt were dangerous.