Need Quick School Project Help: Reticulated Python

[Christine]

My son has his Reticulated Python project due tomorrow. We have built the snake and it looks pretty good. He has several topics he must discuss. We have found all the answers, except one: In the Rainforest, what is the symbiotic relationship between the Reticulated Python and the other plants and animals in the rainforest? In other words, how do they complement each other.

We have been all over the internet, to the library, etc. and we can find NOTHING on this. The only thing we can come up with is that there is a population control of sorts, but this answer actually fell under another category.

Any ideas?

 

[Miller1412]

Maybe this is too simple, but the python eats animals that feed off of the rainforest plants as well as using the plants for cover and camoflauge. In turn, the wast from the python and decomposition of it's body when it dies nourishes the plants of the rainforest.

Just taking a stab at it!!

 

[Christine]

Maybe this is too simple, but the python eats animals that feed off of the rainforest plants as well as using the plants for cover and camoflauge. In turn, the wast from the python and decomposition of it's body when it dies nourishes the plants of the rainforest.

Just taking a stab at it!!

Well, we can certainly give it a try. It's much better than what we've come up with. Thanks!

 

[Disney Doll]

Python waste is fertilizer for the plants as well????

I've heard "python poop" is high in all sorts of nutrients that rainforest plants thrive on!!!!