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Burmese Python

Our animals:

Family: Pythonidae

Order: Squamata

Class: reptiles

Length:

5-7 m

Weight:

80 kg

Nutrition: Mammals, deer, pigs and monkeys. Reproduction: It reaches maturity at the age of 3 years. Females lay 60-100 eggs, younger ones do less, the older ones do more and more. The female heats the eggs with its body by curling around them. The optimal incubation temperature is 36 °C-- when the weather is cooler, mother can increase the temperature of the nest even by 7 °C. Small python offspring hatch the eggs in 60-80 days. Did you know? Even though these animals weigh a lot, They are not slow. They possess enormous power. It is an endangered species, and considered to be a dangerous animal, therefore keeping it is subject to authorisation. Watch it! Its colour is creamy-white with brown pattern, but albinos also occur. The pattern of albinos range with that of the others, but They have not got brown and black shades, and their eyes are red. It spends most of its days on trees, from where They are hunting particularly for smaller mammals. The larger ones can capture monkeys and deer as well. Habitat: It lives between the branches of trees. Spread: The whole area of South Asia