Talk:Reticulated python: Difference between revisions

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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 Wikipedia 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 credibilitycredulity [[User:74.103.29.11|74.103.29.11]] 07:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)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)