- CHARACTERISTICS
- They can reach up to 8,5 m in length.
They can weigh up to 90 Kg.
- DIET
- Its diet is of fish, wallabies, birds, small mammals and there are cases documented of them killing and swallowing domestic dogs.
- REPRODUCTION
- It is oviparous.
Mating takes place in summer from June to September.
Oviposition takes place between October to December.
It lays between 17 and 19 eggs at a time and they are incubated for 77 to 88 hours.
- CURIOSITIES
- It is the third longest snake in the world and the largest amongst all tree-dwellers.
At the beginning of the 80’s, it was hunted by poachers for its skin which reaches a high price on the black market.
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- NAME
- Amethystine Python
- HABITAT
- Australia and Papua New Guinea
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Morelia amethistina
- SPICE
- Reptile
- DIET
- Carnivorous
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