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Chapter 216 - 216 173 Throwing away troubles_1
Chapter 216 - 216 173 Throwing away troubles_1
?Chapter 216: Chapter 173 Throwing away troubles_1 Chapter 216: Chapter 173 Throwing away troubles_1 Feng Yi sat on the giant python’s back, holding onto the tail part to stop it from curling toward this side. His expression was serious, but his eyes were unfocused, unsure of what he was thinking.
Steve hadn’t noticed Feng Yi’s distraction at all; he was praising the regal shape of the python’s head.
“Look at this head, it’s the head of a born ruler! And these old scars on its head, they’re its battle badges from the swamp—domestic pythons don’t have these! Wow, look at its gaze, detached, cool, even the scales around its eyes are wild and domineering! It has much more ‘Spiritual Energy’ than the domestic ones!”
Feng Yi: “…”
Steve: “This head shape, this look, this figure! Ah, it seems to have a bit of reticulated python lineage. You can tell it’s not a purebred reticulated python, and a purebred one probably wouldn’t be so willing to move in this temperature.
“Before the period of climate anomalies, someone had discovered in the swamp that, after generations of natural selection, individuals that survived the climate anomalies and were able to adapt to the swamp conditions may have interbred with other pythons, like Burmese or other rock pythons, to produce hybrid pythons?”
Steve spoke his speculation.
This hybrid giant python was comparatively slender, also resembling a reticulated python.
Six meters is considered the limit for a Burmese python, but there are many reticulated pythons of six meters; as long as the conditions are right, six meters is easy. Steve had also seen reticulated pythons of seven meters, though most were in captivity.
He had never seen a wild reticulated one of seven meters.
“Although it’s not a purebred reticulated python, this kind of hybrid is rare enough, and wild individuals also appear more robust!”
As Steve spoke, he finally noticed Feng Yi’s distraction and asked with concern, “Are you alright?”
Feng Yi came back to his senses and shook his head, “No, just a little hungry.”
“Ah, hang in there for a bit longer, once Director He and the others arrive, you can go and have something to eat.”
Feng Yi hummed in acknowledgment, then turned the conversation back to the python, “This one is about seven meters, right? Can it set a new world record?”
Excited by the topic, Steve said, “It should be seven meters, we have to measure carefully to be precise. It might not break the highest data, but it’s definitely the longest python found in the wild. Some of the captive ones, the extreme individuals, are also very big.”
“Under wild conditions, human activities can affect their living environment, which naturally limits their growth. In the past, when human activity wasn’t as widespread, there were vast primary forests, greater wetland jungle areas, plentiful food, and suitable growing environments that definitely could support larger and more extreme individuals.
“Now, it’s hard to find extreme individuals in the wild, but you can see captive ones in zoos and research centers. Look at those celebrity pythons in zoos; they are generally larger, some have been selectively bred with care. Following the climate anomalies, when funding increased, zoos got very competitive with grants, subsidies, and donations; everyone’s trying to grow the biggest one.”
Speaking of zoos, Feng Yi also recalled the golden python he had seen before, “There’s a golden python in Rong City Zoo, over six meters, a very big one.”
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