| Common
Name |
Scientific
Name |
| Diamond
Python |
Morelia
spilota spilota |
| Introduction |
 |
|
This
non-venomous snake kills its prey by constriction. These
pythons are proficient climbers and spend a great deal of
their time in trees.
|
| Food |
| It
hunts mainly at night. Mammals, birds and lizards form the
majority of its diet and are constricted and swallowed
whole. |
| Breeding |
| These
snakes lay between 12 and 50 eggs. Like other pythons, the
female coils around the clutch of eggs to protect and
incubate them until they hatch. |
| Habitat |
 |
| Inhabits
a variety of habitats, most of which are heavily
vegetated, but it is restricted to coastal New South
Wales. |
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