Python reticulatus has many synonyms such as Boa Reticulate, Boa rhombeata, Boa Phrygia, Coluber Javanicus, Python Schneideri, Python reticulatus , Python reticulatus, and Morelia reticulates.
Python reticulatus is non-venomous python that can be found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, Indonesia, and also Filipina. Habitat is in rain forests, near rivers, and lakes. The color pattern is a complex geometric that incorporates numerous different colors. The back has a series of irregular diamond shapes with light centers.
The adults have a length more than 32 feet (9.75 m) and probably the world's longest snakes, but not the most heavily, because anaconda Eunectes murinus may be larger. They are normally not dangerous to man, even though large specimens are powerful enough to kill, and they also an excellent swimmer. Oviparous, females lay between 60 and 100 eggs per clutch, at an optimum incubation temperature of 31–32°C (88–90 °F), and the eggs take an average of 88 days to hatch. Hatchlings are at least 2 feet (61 cm) in length.
Their natural diet includes mammals and occasionally birds. Small specimens with 3–4 meters (10–14 ft) long, eat mainly rats, whereas larger individuals prey Viverridae such as binturong, and even primates and pigs. Near human habitation, they are known to snatch stray chickens, cats and dogs on occasion. Among the largest prey items were a half-starved old female Sun Bear of 23 kilograms that was eaten by a 6.95 m (23 ft) specimen and took some 10 weeks to digest. These snakes seem able to swallow prey up to ¼ their own length, and up to their own weight. As with all pythons, they waiting until prey wanders within strike range before seizing it in their coils and killing via constriction.
