Python

Python

  • Scientific name:
    Python regius

Animalia Kingdom Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Pythonidae Genre: Python

Python

  • Python regius

Main features:

• Head is narrow oval in shape, has a narrow neck, robust body and relatively short tail.

• Basic color ranges from light golden brown to creamy yellow, broken by two irregularly shaped longitudinal stripes.

• They have a complex and developed sense of smell as well as touch. They have vertical pupils like all species of nocturnal habits.

Reproduction:

• Oviparous species.

• Young will be born and will develop after their mother lays her eggs. During the laid, these snakes coil around the eggs to provide warmth necessary.

Feeding:

• It is a carnivorous species.

• Its diet consists of mammals and birds, it can also eat amphibians (frogs, toads) and fish,even other smaller reptiles or snakes.

Distribution:

• Natural habitat is in Central and West Africa, including the countries from Nigeria, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana, Benin and Togo.


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