When you thought you knew everything about one of the most popular types of invasive Florida, a surprise turns out.
Based on the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists have discovered a new type of cells that help Burma Pythons to digest their prey.
Correctly heard when Python swallows its dish that could be as big as all the deer – investigators found why there were no bone fragments at both ends. Everything must be associated with the newly discovered bone cells in the snake intestine.
Where do the Burmese pythons live?
Originating from Southeast Asia, Burmese python was introduced into South Florida, either by accidental escape or deliberate release of captive animals.
Southwestern Florida Conservation since 2013 In Southwest Florida, it removed more than 20 tonnes of 40,000 pounds – Burmese pythons.
The team uses 40 “scout snakes” to find reproductive Pythons breeding season from November to April, 200 square miles in the state and private land in Naples from Western Everglades.
“Biologists point to adult pythons woman trying to suppress Python reproduction. Since 2013, the team has stopped an additional 20,000 python eggs from the transition,” said the preservation of southwest Florida.
What do the Burmese pythons eat?
Pythons can consume more than 100% of their body mass dishes by feeding a diet with more than 85 species including deer, bobcats, foxes, rabbits, birds, various reptiles and other local wildlife.
Special cells allow the Burmese Pitons to absorb their prey skeletons
Python tries to swallow £ 77 deer. Photo: Ian Bartoszek
According to a study published by the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists discovered “previously unknown cell type” in the pythons intestinal walls, which completely dissolve skeletons.
Professor Jehan-Hervé Lignot, Professor at the University of Monpelier in France, is credited to the discovery using captive minors’ pythons as his subjects and for snakes using three different diet types: a normal diet with all rodents; Diet low calcium diet using rodents without bone; And a diet rich in calcium, using rodents without bone and calcium carbonate supplements.
Looking at specialized snake intestinal cells, it turned out that “Burmese Pythons has a specialized type of intestinal cells associated with dissolved calcium and excess phosphorus during the release of prey and is deposited as particles that must accumulate in faeces.”
Snakes fed without bones suffer from calcium deficiencies, but too much calcium is also not good, and calcium absorption can put too much skeleton into the snake blood.
“We wanted to find out how they were able to process and restrict this huge calcium absorption through the intestinal wall,” Lignot told Eurekaalert, a non-profit news release platform, owned by the American Science Development Association.
Burmese pythons are not alone when it comes to specialized cells. They were also identified in other Pythons, Baa Concrictors and The Genomous Gira Monster.
The largest pythons documented in Florida
The Burmese pythons, classified as one of the largest snakes in the world, are invasive, referring to Florida and are mainly found in Everglades and its surroundings where the snake is threatened by local wildlife, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission reports.
Southwestern Florida’s preservation said her scientists were recognized for the fact that she recorded the largest Python woman, which was £ 215 and weighs £ 215, and the largest Python man with a record of 16 feet and £ 140.
Pythons may not be poisonous but their bite hurts
Based on the Florida Museum’s website, small individual pythons are usually not dangerous to humans or pets.
Large Burmese pythons have large, sharp teeth, and their bites can cause strong laces.
Florida Python Hunter describes the Python bite: “Like the mouth of the mouth”
“They are like mouth hyperder needles,” Python Hunter Amy Siewe described Python bite.
This article initially appeared in the Naples Dail News: Burmese Pythons Spirit