All three pythons in Vietnam are in the red book

Of the three python species in Vietnam, the python has the largest size and weight, then python and eventually python .

Python python molurus

They are the largest size, weight of pythons found in Vietnam with an average size of 4-6m, some individuals are about 8m long and weigh more than 100kg.

The head of the head is long, small, gray-brown. The top of the head has a lanceolate pattern that moves from the neck, a pointed tip toward the tip of the muzzle. In the southern delta, they prefer to live in wetlands, melaleuca forests, flooded parrot forests, sometimes even penetrating into gardens. In the winter in the North, the species is often in caves and mainly hunts at night; In the summer they like to soak in the water.

Land python weighing up to 100kg.(Photo: WIkipedia).

The food of the species is mainly gnawing, deer, birds, frogs and reptiles. Currently, the number of species is seriously reduced due to loss of habitat and hunting. Land pythons are in the Vietnam Red Book, belong to the group of animals that strictly prohibit exploitation and use.

Python reticulatus Python Python

This species is 6-7m long, head long, small, light yellow or brown. On the body and tail are dark gray lines joined together to form a floating lower eye shape on a yellow-brown background. Unique patterns make it difficult for observers to curl up in the vegetation around the big tree in the open forest.

Python reticulatus Python Python.(Photo: Nguyen Thien Tao).

The pythons can climb trees and curl themselves into tree branches that stick out on the water and wait for their prey to attack.

Pythons live in thin forests, near rivers and streams. They spend most of their time on trees. This species is capable of swimming very well, mainly at night. The food of python is composed of animals and birds, civets, civets, primates. In Vietnam, python is distributed in Da Nang, Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Binh Dinh .

Pythons are also included in the Vietnam Red Book, belonging to the group of animals banned from exploitation and use.

Python Python brongersmai

Compared to the two species, python is the smallest with a body length of 2m and is also the rarest species . Hornbeam is mainly distributed in South Vietnam. Their bodies have many colors like black, crimson, white with eye-catching patterns.

Hornbeam is very rare in Vietnam.(Photo: VnCreatures).

According to the Vietnam Forest Biology page, this python species has a small, triangular head, often feeding on mammals and birds and in the Vietnam Red Book. Their heads are light yellow, there is a dark gray trail running from the muzzle that covers all the cheeks, the upper and lower lips stretching out to the neck.

Earlier in the afternoon of December 10, people in Phu Coc Tay village, Que Tho commune (Hiep Duc, Quang Nam) caught a 5m long python, weighing more than 30kg after swallowing the whole calf. People doubt that python is the culprit attacking the cows and goats last time.