Pythons

Pythons

There are many different kinds of pythons. [|Click here to see lots of them.]

Green tree pythons live in live in tropical rainforests in New Guinea, in Indonesia and in Australia. They live in bushes, shrubs and trees, and they often coil themselves around the branch of a tree waiting for their prey.
 * Green tree pythons**

Green tree pythons are reptiles. Like all snakes, green tree pythons have scales. When they are born they can be red or yellow but they turn green when they get older. Being green is good camouflage: it makes it hard for predators like bids of prey to see them hiding in the green leaves.

They can grow up to 2.4 metres long. They do not have venom.

They eat small mammals like rats, and sometimes reptiles. They kill by constricting their prey, squeezing it by wrapping their coils around its body. Then they swallow it whole.

Source: Wikipedia [] and Dangerous Creatures of the Tropical Rainforests, by Helen Bateman and Jayne Denchire, Macmillan Library, 2005