Yes, Asia, I live in Thailand. The average large adult that appears in the neighborhood is about 4 meters. Contrary to the published natural history accounts, they are found in populated areas; however, they are not found in the middle of cities, like P. reticulatus, which can be found in the middle of Bangkok, which has a population of close to 9,000,000! Everyone feels they need to bring any reptile that they find over to my house, including the giants. Great for my herpetological notes, but bad because many, especially the turtles, will be eaten if I do not take them in. I have identified 26 different species of reptiles in my local (10 square km) area from both field work and people bringing over what they find crawling around. How is that for a species diversity?



My P. m. bivittatus (they do not like calling anything Burmese here- Bivittatus Python) hatched in my neighborhood this year; "Anton" is just a baby. When the person brought it over to me, it still had evidence of the egg tooth breaking away!



Michael

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