It is the bane of snakes. What's more, I believe most people have seen the series "The Disaster of Wild Python". It doesn't matter if they haven't seen it. I'll describe two scenes for you. You can imagine snakes. In this series, there is a scene where a man accidentally falls into a snake nest and is quickly swallowed by countless snakes. Another scene is that a man is slowly entangled in a python and finally swallowed alive by the snake. Brainstorming these two scenes, even if you don't see them with your own eyes, you will feel inexplicable fear.

This fear seems to be in the bones. Most people will choose to walk around when they meet snakes, fearing being bitten by them. Even if the other person tells you that the snake is not there, the fear in your heart has not diminished much. If I told you today that even the python in the snake has natural enemies, will your fear be reduced? If I let you deal with snakes, will you have enough courage to fight them?

As the saying goes, know yourself and know yourself. If you want to hit a snake, you must first understand the snake.

Snakes and pythons

Snakes belong to the phylum Chordata and the phylum Reptilia. They have no limbs, their whole bodies are covered with scales, their eyes are round, and their tongues are slender and forked. Different snakes have different habitats, some in trees, some on the ground, some in water and so on.

In fact, it is not what we call a cold-blooded animal. Its body temperature will change with the change of temperature, because it has no complete thermoregulation mechanism. In hunting, it is a carnivore, and basically all kinds of animals will eat it.

The python we are talking about today is a large primitive snake, which is mostly distributed in tropical and temperate regions of the world. It has a body shape, but it doesn't.

It often swims at night and mainly lives in tropical rain forests and forests. When hunting, it often uses ambush tactics, uses the smell on its tongue to find its prey, and then wraps it at a very fast speed, gathers it hard, hangs it alive, and then digests it in its stomach.

Among the extinct creatures, Titan Python is the largest python in the world. It lived about 60 million years ago. According to the analysis of fossils discovered by scientists in South America, the average length of Titan Amorphophallus is about 12 ~ 15 meters, and the thickest part is about 1 meter. This snake can swallow and digest directly without winding its prey.

Seeing this, many people will ask curiously, is there a food chain in the ecosystem? For example, carrots will be eaten by rabbits, rabbits will be eaten by snakes, so what creatures will snakes be eaten by?

Natural enemies of snakes and pythons

We can be sure that snakes have natural enemies, otherwise the whole ecosystem will suffer, and there are still many natural enemies.

One is bullfrog, which is a bigger frog creature in North America. It is cruel and often eats live animals, even the same kind. Snakes and bullfrogs can be said to be sworn enemies. Big snakes can eat bullfrogs, and small snakes are often eaten by bullfrogs.

The second kind is hedgehog, which is the natural enemy of snake. As everyone can imagine, hedgehogs move slowly, but the spikes all over them make some big wild animals helpless. Because if the hedgehog is swallowed, the spikes on the back of the hedgehog will poke holes in the large beast, which also makes the snake give up hunting the hedgehog.

The third is the familiar eagle. Eagles and snakes are also carnivores, but in front of the eagle, the snake has been in an escape state, otherwise it will be turned into food by the eagle's sharp claws.

The fourth kind is king cobra, but don't get me wrong. Although the name has the word snake, it is not a snake, but an independent king cobra. It is more cruel and sexual than ordinary snakes. If people are bitten by it for less than half an hour, many snakes will die under the king cobra's sex.

There are many natural enemies of snakes, but in the case of pythons, there are fewer natural enemies. It can be said that it exists at the top of the food chain, but young pythons still have several natural enemies.

1 species is caiman, a small and medium-sized crocodile. It mainly feeds on invertebrates. When hunting, it adopts ambush tactics similar to snakes. First, stay still, then attack at a fast speed. In front of the caiman, the boa constrictor had to run away.

The second kind is a puma, which has no pattern on its head and a small skull. It can survive in all kinds of environments except the tropical rain forest area. When hunting, it often tears at each other with sharp claws and teeth. It mainly feeds on wild animals such as rabbits and sheep. When it meets a baby python, it will fiercely extend its claws to confront the python, which has a great chance of winning.

Of course, this is just a small python. Caiman and puma will only escape if they meet adult pythons, otherwise they will be hanged alive by pythons and swallowed and digested.

Python has tens of millions of years of racial growth experience, reaching the peak of biological evolution, and has long existed at the top of the food chain in the biological world.

Then the question is coming. What should people do if they meet a python?

Encounter python's solution

If you encounter a python with a length of less than 4m, you can calm down and back off slowly. Staring at the python all the time. When you are about 0/0m away from Python/Kloc-0, turn around quickly and run in an S-shaped line, because the snake runs fastest in a straight line, and the explosive power of the champion in a straight line is not as fast as that of the snake.

Unfortunately, you met a python more than 4 meters long. If you have a knife in your hand, don't fight the python directly, because it will entangle you at a very fast speed and hang you. It is best to drip down quickly, close together, stick your back tightly to the ground, put your hands on your head, and put your hands under your head in a triangle. Remember to stick your back to the ground, and don't let the snake pass through your back and entangle you.

Usually, for the convenience of swallowing food, pythons will swallow from the head of their prey, but their mouths are limited. If you put your hands under your head in a triangle, the snake will give up swallowing from your head and from your legs because your head is too wide.

When the snake swallows you from your leg, you must be calm, absolutely calm. There is still a chance to survive at this time. If you shake your body because of panic, the snake will have a chance to hang you. When the snake swallows above your knee, kick his jaw joint quickly so that his mouth joint can't be closed because of a fracture. Then quickly stab the top of Shekou with the knife in your hand. Don't worry about hurting your leg. Life is more important.

Then quickly spread your legs and run 40 meters away from the snake as fast as you can, because you can't guarantee it. If you find it is not dead 40 meters away, you still have a chance to turn around and run.

Of course, let's pray not to encounter snakes, because untrained people can rarely be absolutely calm in that environment.

The above is related to the nemesis of snakes and the sharing of python. I hope this will help everyone who has been away from the dragon people for a lifetime after watching snakes!