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Reticulated python

Our animals:

Family: Pythonidae

Order: Snakes

Class: reptiles

Length:

3-6 m

Weight:

40-50 kg

Nutrition: Its natural diet consists of mammals and sometimes birds. Reproduction: The reticulated python is egg-layer, female lays 15-80 eggs per nest. Progenies come up on the average after 88 days at an optimal incubation temperature of 31-33 °C. The egg hatching offspring can be 60 cms long. Did you know? This animal is an excellent swimmer, it has already been observed far from shores. It inhabited some smaller islands around its habitat. It can eat a prey of 1/4 of their own length and prey with the same weight. One of the biggest documented preys was a Sun bear of 23kgs, that was eaten by a reticulated python of 6,95 meters. Watch it! This is one of the longest but not the strongest reptile and snake all over the world. The full-grown specimens can be even 8-10 ms. They belong to the most attractive snakes of our planet due to their rich and complicated colours and the patterns of their body. Its skin is patterned with complicated geometrical figures of different colours. Usually it has irregular rhombus-shaped patterns on its back. It has not got fangs like other pythons. It waits for their prey to be in reachable distance, then it suffocates that by curling around it. Habitat: It lives in rainforests, in wooded areas and surrounding grassy edges. Spread: Southeast Asia