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The Children’s python, aka banded rock python, small-blotched python, and eastern small-blotched python, hails from northern Australia. These snakes face the threat of death from ingesting the deadly poisonous cane toad. The threat of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of clearing of native woodlands and rocky outcrops for […]

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The woma python, aka Ramsay’s python, the sand python, or the woma, is like all pythons, a constrictor, and therefore not venomous. They hail from a majority of Australia. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the farming practice of cropping (cutting, trimming, or […]

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The black-headed python is a species of constrictor that hails from northern half of Australia. Being constrictors, they rely on squeezing their prey to death, rather than envenoming their prey. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, residential, and commercial developments. Because […]

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The amethystine python, aka scrub python or sanca permata, is considered to be 1 of the largest snakes in the world after the green anaconda, reticulated python, Burmese python, and African rock python. They are the largest species of python in Australia. These snakes face the threat of being killed […]

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The Indian python, aka Indian rock python, black-tailed python, and Asian rock python, hails from the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. These constrictors like swamps, marshes, rocky foothills, grasslands, savannahs, woodlands, open forests, and river valley biomes. These pretty snakes are listed as Near […]

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The African rock python is the largest python in Africa and there are 2 species: 1 is found in Ethiopia, Senegal, and Uganda. The other is found in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. These snakes are considered an invasive species in Florida, due to the release of many that have […]

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Ranking in at number 1 for the world’s longest snake, it’s the reticulated python. These giant serpents are the 2nd heaviest snake, after the anaconda. They can be found in southern and southeastern Asia in grasslands, woodlands, and rainforests near bodies of water. Even though they are hunted for their […]

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Hailing from southeast Asia, the Burmese python is a beautiful and impressive constrictor to behold indeed. They are also called Asiatic rock pythons and tiger pythons. These generally docile pythons are the third heaviest and the second longest known snake in the world. The Burmese python likes marshes, grasslands, woodlands, […]

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The jungle carpet python is found in mainland Australia, throughout northern, southern, and eastern regions of Australia. They can also be found in the arid islands of the Nuyts Archipelago. This is the most widespread of the Australian pythons. They are also called carpet snakes, Western Australian carpet pythons, or […]

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