Talk:Indian python

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"The longest recorded specimen measured 5.85 m (19 ft 2 in) (Cooch-Behar, West Bengal)." If this is a maximum for the nominate (P. m. molurus), it should be made clear. It's too low for the maximum of this species, as subspecies bivittatus (which, for some reason, has its own article) grows much larger than this. --Anshelm '77 16:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, but when I recently fixed up this article, I didn't have much in the way of specific information on pythonids with which to do any fact checking. I have lots of information on viperids, as well as general taxonomic and geographical data, but not much else (good books cost lots of money). I suspect that you are right about this value in that it probably applies to P. m. molurus; earlier version of these articles were written as though the contributers were unaware that the P. m. molurus and P. m. bivittatus are related. If nobody else does, I suspect that I will eventually correct all this information myself, although that may take a while. Hey, you wanna help out?! Ha, just joking. Cheers, --Jwinius 20:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)sick dou[reply]

What about the one that was over 22 feet from Florida? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13566379/) Granted, it was captive, so maybe captive snakes don't count? It was five years ago, so I wonder how big it is now, if it's still alive? I certainly think the super heavy weight of some captive Burmese pythons are just obese animals. They are twice the weight of normal animals of the same length (at least). Length is a different matter, though. But still, this article is about the species*, the title shows the scientific name of the species, so it should be about both subspecies, and therefore the specimen seems relevant, though it' a Burmese python. Thus the max length is at least 22 feet for a captive animal. (*Other animal articles have no problem with this.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.53.55.228 (talk) 16:40, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

idea for improvement

Hi! Unfortunately this page includes many inconsistencies. Probably there is some helpful information at the German Wikipedia for upgrading this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerpython Good luck! 84.74.165.175 (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]