Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Burmese Python (Jonah) - Growing Up Wild - video Dailymotion

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Robert & Bindi Irwin showcase their wildest animals at Australia Zoo. Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://full.sc/HbM62v Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: gplus.to/thepetcollective  Robert takes us to met one his favourite animals at the Zoo Jonah the Burmese Python. Robert and Jonah have grown up together and are the same age, Robert has played with Jonah since he was a very young. Burmese Pythons are constrictors and one of the largest snakes in the world, Jonah is 35 pounds but they can grow much bigger the bigger the snake the bigger the type of food item they can eat. The Burmese Python's appetite is becoming a problem in places like Florida where they have escaped and are eating  the native animals.

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00:00This is Jonah, the Burmese python. Isn't he amazing? He's probably one of my favourite

00:17snakes here. Oh, Bruce, I've got Bruce here just to help me because he actually weighs

00:23about 30 to 35 pounds. He's really, really big. I really love this snake because he actually

00:29hatched the same time I did. So I've actually played with him my whole life. He's really,

00:35really cool and I love him. The Burmese python can actually get up to about 16 feet long.

00:40They're one of the biggest snakes in the world. And these guys are actually constrictors,

00:46which means they'll coil around their prey and then squeeze all the air out. And to eat,

00:51he'll disarticulate his jaw in six different places to swallow that food item up. You can

00:58actually tell how big a food item that he will eat by the girth of the snakes. So this size,

01:05he would probably eat fairly small things like a rabbit or something like that.

01:10In places like Florida, people actually have these Burmese pythons as pets. Sometimes they

01:17get out and they'll eat some of the native wildlife. So it's a really big problem.

01:22This guy is sadly endangered. See that pattern? It's a beautiful pattern on the skin and people

01:29will actually kill the snake to get that skin. It's actually sort of like a fashion for people.

01:35But I think the skin looks a lot better on the animal than on someone's boots,

01:39bags or belts. Whoa, this guy's getting really heavy. So if I'm still alive,

01:45watch the next episode. And remember to subscribe to the Pet Collective channel.

01:51And I'll see you in the next one. Bye.

Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Burmese Python (Jonah) - Growing Up Wild

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