87. African rock python!
Although the valley floor of the Great Rift Valley has escaped the attention of human society, the danger of the valley floor is everywhere.
Because it is relatively damp and dark, there are many animals that like to be damp and shady, and many of these animals are poisonous.
Yang Wu walked very carefully, for fear that he would be bitten by a poisonous insect if he was not careful, although it would not kill him, but it would be very uncomfortable! Let him think about the time he was bitten by a king cobra, there was no danger, but he didn't want to try a second time.
As the saying goes: once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope. Yang Wu has a great memory.
Yang Wu found that there are many snakes at the bottom of the valley, both poisonous and non-venomous, and all snakes that are not poisonous can safely survive here, and almost all non-venomous snakes have unique skills! This is the capital for them to settle down.
And just as Yang Wu was advancing, suddenly he saw a brown tail on the river bank near the bottom of the cliff from a distance, this tail was bare, there were no feathers and other hairs, but some scales were closely arranged together, this was obviously the tail of a python!
Yang Wu approached cautiously, now a python in the ordinary sense could not hurt him, but it was not as big a threat to him as a poisonous snake with a very poisonous attack speed!
Because pythons kill their prey by winding, their attack speed or movement speed is not very fast, they are mainly in trees, grass, rock formations and other places to integrate with the surrounding environment and wait for the prey to "come to the door", which does not exist for Yang Wu!
With Yang Wu's spirituality, he could feel it whenever there was a little murderous aura and murderous intent, and even if it was well hidden, it would be difficult to escape in his easy-to-use eyes!
So he is not afraid of the python, his caution is just to not alarm it, if he can easily hunt a python, why fight it again?! As Yang Wu becomes more and more powerful, the animals on the earth are less and less threatening to him, but he is not willing to lose this hunting nature.
He took a closer look and found that there was a cave with a radius of half a meter, and the cave was not estimated to be deep, or the python did not climb to the innermost, so it showed half of its tail outside.
The python seemed to be resting, motionless.
Since Yang Wu has murderous intent, then he must kill it with one blow! The position of the tail is not a fatal point, but it can be cut off first, so that it has no ability to escape.
I saw that Yang Wu's two front paws instantly popped out sharp claws, and the wind and fire meteor moved towards the tail of the python.
"Huh!"
Broken tails are like cutting tofu!
"......"
Blood gushed out like a pillar! The python writhed its body in pain, but the wound on its tail spurted blood like a fire hose.
"Hiss ......"
The python's snake head also came out of the cave, its painfully protruding tongue making a "hissing" sound, and its eyes looking at Yang Wu were full of hatred.
Yang Wu recognized this as an African rock python almost instantly, and generally rock pythons do not live here, but in desert areas, but did not expect to find one here.
The African rock python is a non-venomous python belonging to the family Pythonidae of the suborder Snake. They are mainly found in the Saharan region of Africa.
The African rock python is the largest snake in Africa, with a long body that can reach up to 7.5 meters in length and varies greatly from region to region, with brown, olive, chestnut or yellow patches, often with wide irregular bands, a triangular head with yellow edges at the top, a dark brown pointed tip in the middle, and a distinctive triangular inaucularity mark under the eye.
The longest recorded African rock python was discovered in Côte d'Ivoire in 1932 and is 9.72 metres long. The body color of the African rock python is mainly made up of brown, and there are many olive-colored irregular patterns on the body. Its body pattern and color are very similar to those of the Burmese python, so it is easy to be confused. However, the two species are not closely related.
The African rock python is an opportunist when it comes to predation, and it can kill its prey with a strong squeezing force with its body. Juvenile African rock pythons mainly prey on rodents, but adult African rock pythons tend to prey on large animals such as sheep, antelopes, jackals, honey badgers, meerkats, hyenas, zebras, and even crocodiles.
The African rock python usually starts breeding in the spring, and the female snake can give birth to about 100 eggs at a time, and is also responsible for guarding and incubating her eggs. Newborn baby snakes are about 45 to 60 centimeters long.
The young of the African rock python are very fragile, with only 1% of young snakes surviving to adulthood.
The African rock python is active in the general grasslands and savannahs, but its area is not far from water sources, and sometimes it will break into the edge of the forest, but rarely penetrate into it.
African rock pythons rely on water, and when the weather is too hot or too dry, they forcibly hide in burrows dug by other animals and go into a summer hibernation. However, the African rock python has a more vicious temperament and a bad temper, and if it is harassed, it is easy to bite!
The body length of this African rock python is about 8 meters, which is considered a relatively large size among African rock pythons, and it must be very good to eat so big, it seems that there is a relatively rich food source at the bottom of the African Rift Valley.
This African rock python saw that it was a lion attacking it, but it was not timid, this male lion attacked it, then it could not be good!
I saw that the African rock python quickly rushed towards Yang Wu, and it couldn't solve the hatred in its heart if it didn't tightly entangle this male lion to death!
Yang Wu's eyes stared at the movements of the African rock python, braking quietly, and responding to all changes without change, at the moment when the African rock python approached, its body had already wrapped around Yang Wu, and its neck and head were ready to circle around Yang Wu's body to achieve the purpose of circling and winding.
Yang Wu's cold eyes flashed, he advanced, shrunk, and instantly broke out of the attack range of the African rock python.
The attack of the African rock python immediately slowed down, and the moment it landed, Yang Wu's furious attack came!
I saw Yang Wu fly and kill with one move - the lion fights the rabbit, dominating the world! The two sharp front paws swung and cut a half-meter-long wound on the abdomen of the African rock python that was thicker than the sea bowl!
"Hiss ......"
The wounds on the abdomen and tail of the African rock python were bleeding, and the ground was already red with blood, because the terrain was higher here, and the blood flowed like a small stream into the river, and in the spread of blood, it flowed downstream with the cold water.
The loss of a large amount of blood made the African rock python extremely weak, but the vitality of the python was still very strong, and I saw that its body squirmed for a while, especially the frequency of squirming at the wound was faster.
As he squirmed, Yang Wu found that the wound of the African rock python was gradually getting smaller, and the blood slowly stopped.
Yang Wu felt that it was amazing, this African rock python had reached a very high level of control over the subtleties of its body, and it could control its muscles tightly to achieve the purpose of stopping bleeding?!
Awesome python!