Talk:Reticulated python: Difference between revisions

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:No liability issue - every single page of Wikipedia has a link to [[Wikipedia:General_disclaimer]] at the bottom. True and/or verifiable? I don't know. I think you did the right thing to move it here. [[User:FreplySpang|FreplySpang]] [[User talk:FreplySpang|(talk)]] 01:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't agree with removing this section and merely discarding it. I think it should be investigated and if found correct, returned. My reason is that if someone is bitten by a pet snake or in some circumstances a wild one (especially when snake-catching) and dodoes not know these methods they are liable to panic and use brute force against the animal injuring it unnecessarily, though they would prefer not to do so if possible. If the methods do work, they are easy to prepare for and use.

As an examopleexample of what I mean see the video at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1864193870393450993&sourceid=searchfeed

This is a group of policemen who are trying to manhandle a large anaconda (not reticulated python)into a cage when one is badly bitten and another bitten mildly. Had they come prepared with a bottle of alcohol (ethyl, hopefully rather than methyl, but possibly also isopropyl if it works) to deal with eventualities like what happened, the release of the man's arm would have been easier and the snake less beaten up. Throwing mud over it's eyes before picking it up and keeping applying additional mud to blind itduring the carrying might have averted the bite in the first place and not harmed the animal.

Years ago when I lived in Singapore I saw preople next door to where I lived catch a twelve foot python in the park ( I think they may thrive on the rats in the open storm drainage ditches there). To avoid being bitten they held it with a noose on a stick very heedless of its suffering, jerking it up in the air by its neck to show people who were curious, and eventually selling it in some sort of snake market where its bile or somethng was to be used as tonic. I would have felt better if they'd handled it by hand. If knowing the above information would have made them more willing to do this, then it should be in ikipediaWikipedia if valid. It was twenty years ago and I still feel awful for the snake.

Are there really fifteen times more reticulated pythons than people in Indonesia? This strains credibility when the population is about 250 million... that's 3.7 billion pythons, or about 1,950 per square kilometer. Even with farming and the relatively large amount of non-farmed land in the country outside Java, I doubt this. Can anyone cite a reasonable source?

Mike da Slug [[User:74.103.29.11|74.103.29.11]] 08:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Mike da Slug

== 'pet' retics ==