Indian Python.pptx

A large, non venomous python species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
 It’s common names includes Indian python, black-tailed python, Indian rock python, and Asian rock python.

1. Submitted By: Ms . Nandita Purohit (M.Sc . Zoology) ( Python molurus )

2. Taxonomy Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Pythonidae Genus: Python Species: molurus

3. introduction It  is a large, non venomous  python  species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.   It’s common names  includes Indian python, black-tailed python ,  Indian rock python, and Asian rock python .

4. Physiological Character The rock python's color pattern is whitish or yellowish with blotched patterns varying from tan to dark brown shades. This varies with terrain and habitat . The species occurring in India  typically grows to 3 m (9.8 ft ). Few  individuals might nearly 3.6 m (12 ft ).

5. Distribution and habitat Occurring in India, southern Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and probably in the north of  Myanmar. It lives in a wide range of habitats, including grasslands, swamps, marshes, rocky foothills, woodlands, open forests, and river valleys . It needs a permanent source of water and hides in abandoned mammal burrows, hollow trees, dense water reeds, and mangrove thickets.

6. Behavior Lethargic and slow moving. Even in their native habitat, they exhibit timidity and rarely try to attack even when attacked . Locomote usually with the body moving in a straight line, by "walking on its ribs". E xcellent swimmers and are quite at home in water. Can be wholly submerged in water for many minutes if necessary, but usually prefer to remain near the bank .

7. Feeding Like all snakes, Indian pythons are strict carnivores and feed on mammals, birds, and reptiles indiscriminately, but seem to prefer mammals . Roused to activity on sighting prey, the snake advances with a quivering tail and lunges with an open mouth . Live prey is constricted and killed. One or two coils are used to hold it in a tight grip. The prey, unable to breathe, succumbs and is subsequently swallowed head first.

8. An Indian python swallowing an axis deer

9. After a heavy meal, they are disinclined to move. If forced to, hard parts of the meal may tear through the body . Therefore , if disturbed, some specimens disgorge their meal to escape from potential predators . The python can swallow prey bigger than its diameter because the jaw bones are not connected. Moreover , prey cannot escape from its mouth because of the arrangement of the teeth (which are reverse saw-like).

10. Reproduction These animals are oviparous, and females lay up to 100, which she protects and incubates. For incubation, they are capable of raising their body temperature above the ambient level through muscular contractions .   The hatchlings are 45–60 cm (18–24 in) in length and grow quickly. An artificial incubation method using climate-controlled environmental chambers was developed in India for successfully raising hatchlings from abandoned or unattended eggs.

11. Cluster of Indian Python eggs. Indian Python Juveniles

12. IUCN status The Indian python is classified as lower risk/near threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This listing indicates that it may become threatened with extinction and is in need of frequent reassessment .

13. H ere’s a little reference of The Indian Python from our childhood.

14. THANK- YOU!