What does a python look like?? What is the difference between a snake and a python?

The python is also a type of snake, which is a relatively primitive lower snake. There is not much difference between snakes and pythons in nature, both belong to reptiles, and pythons generally have larger bodies than snakes and belong to the giant snake class.

Africa's historically extinct African python is the longest known snake, reaching up to 12 meters in length.

The python always lies motionless and waits for its prey, slowly crawling to approach its prey. It kills its prey not by pounce and injure it, but by winding. It stretches its body and wraps around its prey in circles.

Each time the prey breathes, it is bounced tighter until it suffocates to death, and then the python swallows it whole.

Anaconda appearance:

The python is usually 3-5 meters long, with a dark brown spear-shaped spot on the back of the head and neck, and a black longitudinal spot on the side of the head starting from the nostrils, passing through the scales in front of the eyes and the eyes obliquely to the corners of the mouth.

The python also has a black stripe under the eye that slopes backward to the lip, the lower lip scale is slightly black-brown spots, the ventral surface of the head is yellowish-white, the body is brown, grayish brown or yellow, and there are large black-edged clouded leopards on the back and sides of the body.

Markings, yellowish-white abdomen.

Habits:

Pythons catch their prey, regardless of their size, and swallow their prey without chewing. This way of swallowing pythons is mainly due to the special structure of their jaws.

Mandible. It is composed of two large parts that are independent of each other, and these two parts can move alternately, in order to better eat, the python opens its mouth wide and bites the prey while erecting its predecessor, and then closes the upper and lower jaws, and in turn allows each upper and lower jaw to rotate in motion. If another animal comes to attack, it will immediately spit out the food it has swallowed and flee.

The body length is usually 3-5 meters. There is a dark brown spear-shaped spot on the back of the head and neck, and a black longitudinal spot on the side of the head starts from the nostrils and passes through the scales of the eyes and obliquely to the corners of the mouth. There is also a black stripe under the eyes that obliquely obliquely to the lip margin, the lower lip scales are slightly black-brown, the ventral surface of the head is yellowish-white, the dorsal body is brown, gray-brown or yellow, and there are large clouded leopard-like markings on the dorsal and both sides of the body, and the body and abdomen are yellowish-white.

The head is small, the snout is flattened, the snout scales are wider than high, the back is visible, the nostrils are located on both sides of the nasal scales, and the length of the internasal scales is less than twice the width; followed by a pair of large frontal scales; frontal scales in pairs; eyes medium-large, pupils erect, oval; anterior scales 2,; Upper eye scales 1, larger.

posterior ocular scales 3 or 4; infraocular scales 1; small scales on the top of the head and temporal; upper lip scales 11-13, upper lip scales with labial fossa; body scales smooth and edgeless, 54-64 rows in the neck, 64-72 rows in the median, 40-44 rows in the anterior anus; ventral scales narrow, 255-263; anal scales intact; There are claw-like hind limb remnants on both sides of the cloacal foramen, and 63-71 pairs of caudal scales.

Distribution: Pythons are found in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, southeastern Pakistan, southern China, the Philippines and Australia.

In the United States, the introduced Burmese python (Python bivittatus) has been present as an invasive species in Everglades National Park since the late 1990s.

Pythons are also kept as pets in many countries around the world. Although the teeth of pythons are not poisonous, they are dangerous to humans to a certain extent due to their large size and can swallow medium to large animals (e.g., pigs or sheep).