Customer: Kendall Schmidt Animal Python Report by: Felicia Ferentinos

Python Report
Pythons are Carnivores which means it only eats meat Pythons eats monkeys, pigs, small apes birds and other animals. After it eats a large prey. Then the python will not be able to eat for a long time. Then they will rest for weeks. The python is the largest snake and constriction. That lives in the sub-Saharan in Africa. The python also lives in Asia and Africa that is near the equator. Their habitats are in caves and trees that they make. Pythons use to live in cities and towns. Ever since people started taking over their territory. Pythons are Constrictors which means that they will squeeze the life out of their prey to kill it. That they have caught. They will coil their selves around their prey and with each breathe the snake will squeeze until the prey can not breathe. Pythons will also eat Lizards, Caiman and antelope. The python will need to eat at 4 and 5 times a year. The python is one of worlds largest snakes the other largest snake is the anaconda. The Pythons lives for 20 to 30 years. Pythons will use Constriction Several times. Then the prey will die with asphyxiation. Sometimes Pythons will surprise their prey and then the prey will suffocate their prey to death. Pythons have the color of their skin to help them with their process, as pythons usually the color matches with their habitat and their surroundings, Pythons never give any opportunity for the prey to escape. The Python that lives in Africa lives near water at the edge of forests. The Pythons predators are crocodiles, birds of prey, cats, and pigs these predators attack them when they are small. These predators kill them for food. When the Python is big it can even eat crocodiles and gazelles. Pythons do not live in groups. They hunt alone. The python that lives in trees are about 7 feet long. When it is in the leaves in the high forest branches then they can sneak up in the tree and grab a bird. When the prey stops breathing its swallows it whole. Pythons are excellent swimmers they also spend a lot a time in the water. This is even how they catch their food. This is one of their ambush techniques to how to get food. They lie submerged in a steam or a slow-moving river. They only put their heads out of the water. They wait for a bird or small mammal. That comes near the waters edge. They usually hunt

in the water during the dry season. The snake is about 30, ft in a length. There are 7 species of the python snake. The well known python is the reticulated python that reaches about of the length of 30 feet. The Reticulated python is the nocturnal nature. That prefers to live in a solitary life. Pythons have special little claws called spurs. Adult pythons are about 5-6m (15-20ft). Pythons even live on Southeast Asia. The Pythons weight is 90.7kg (2.0016ft). Pythons are also known to be very clam animals exactly the Burmese Pythons. The Burmese is the most commonly found in managed situations. The Reticulated Pythons also can swim in the Pacific Ocean. This is how the reticulated pythons live in the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Pythons other predators are birds, carnivorous mammals. These animals kill the python when it is young. Large frogs, large insects and spiders and even other snakes, adult pythons get attacked by eagles, lions and leopards. Some Pythons live in Australia. Pythons do not often kill humans. Unless the snake is stressed. The some pythons are 23 inches long. The females are bigger than the males. Pythons can live up to 40 years in captivity. The pythons strap can till if prey is near by. They start eating by the preys head. When the python has a big meal it will never eat for one year. Pythons can lay 100, 75 and 15 eggs. The mother incubates them for 2-3 months and aggressively defends her eggs the hatching is 18-24 inches in length. Some pythons lay 12 and 36 eggs. The pythons wraps around her eggs to kept them warm. The mothers warm their eggs with shivering, this involves rhythmic contractions of muscles, the mother python can amazingly raise the temperature of her eggs up of few degrees. It takes lot of energy, to do this. The mother will reproduce again for 2 to 3 years. When she loses weight after the eggs are hatched and ready to live on their own. The new born pythons usually have brighter colors then their parents. The biggest reason why the pythons are being threatened because people are killing them for their beautiful skin to make snake skin pants, vests, cowboy boots, and shoes. The pythons biggest main predator is man. That is what I know about Pythons.