{"id":30017,"date":"2025-08-29T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30017"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:06:54","slug":"burmese-pythons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/burmese-pythons\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese Pythons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Burmese Python Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities in Florida have turned to robot rabbits for help to control the population of Burmese pythons.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Burmese Python<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the largest snake species in the world. It can grow up to 20 feet and weigh more than 250 pounds, with females being larger than males.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>non-venomous,<\/b> <b>solitary <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and mainly <\/span><b>nocturnal forest dweller snake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also an <\/span><b>excellent swimmer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is able to stay submerged for up to half an hour. Burmese pythons spend the majority of their time hidden in the underbrush and will usually move only when hunting or when threatened.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until 2009, it was considered a subspecies of Python molurus, but is now recognized as a distinct species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat of Burmese Pythons:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They live in <\/span><b>grasslands, marshes, swamps, wet rocky areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, caves, woodlands, rainforests, mangrove forests, river valleys, and jungles with open clearings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Burmese Pythons<\/span><b>: IUCN: Vulnerable<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Distribution of Burmese Pythons<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is native to the <\/span><b>tropical rainforests and subtropical jungles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of eastern and northeastern <\/span><b>India, Myanmar, southern China<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Southeast Asia, and to some extent of the Indonesian archipelago. Its distribution also encompasses eastern Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an invasive species in Florida as a result of the pet trade.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/why-florida-is-using-robot-rabbits-to-capture-pythons-10216513\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burmese Pythons is one of the largest snake species in the world. It can grow up to 20 feet and weigh more than 250 pounds, with females being larger than males. Read more about Burmese Pythons, Habitat, Distribution, Conservation Status, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2393,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-30017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-burmese-pythons","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}