Python Reticulated history

The Reticulated Python makes its home throughout southeastern Asia. Reticulated Pythons have long been the source of folktales that tell of snakes reaching between 50 and 150 feet in length, although no cases of these giants have been documented. The largest Reticulated Python documented, according to the 1991 Guinness Book of World Records, was recorded at almost 33 feet. This is the longest specimen of any type of snake ever documented. The New York Zoological Society offers a reward of $50,000 to any person who can find a Reticulated Python longer than 30 feet. The Reticulated Python was once quite common throughout its range. They are rapidly decreasing in numbers because over a hundred thousand of the snakes are killed each year, primarily for their skins. They are also killed by native Asian tribes that drink their blood. Reticulated Pythons are quite vulnerable to people who come across the snake in the wild and kill it simply because it is so very large.