Fluffy, a reticulated python, python reticulates, is considered the world’s largest exhibited snake. Fluffy is 24 feet long, 300 pounds, and 15 years old. Fluffy’s waist is the size of a watermelon.

Pythons catch an animal with their teeth and then constrict around it to suffocate it.

Females incubate their eggs by coiling their body around them. They keep them at a constant 89 C. They even shiver to maintain the right temperature.

Fluffy was supposed to make an airplane trip, but it was cancelled after the movie, Snakes on a Plane, came out.

Jack Hannah of the Columbus zoo has taken Fluffy on the David Letterman show.

Another view of Fluffy is shown at:

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The speed with which the coils are applied is impressive and the force they exert may be significant, but death is caused by suffocation, with the victim not being able to move its ribs in order to breathe while it is being constricted.

A reticulated python moving around at Ueno Zoo.

Travel and Animals