Stimpson's Python

Of Western Australia

Antaresia stimsoni

Pythons are non-venomous

This was photographed at Armadale Reptile Centre in Perth.  This is possibly the Antaresia stimsoni orientalis species.

There are two subspecies;  Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni

They are small pythons their body length is aprox .87m. 
 It prefers wide variety of habitats in subhumid to arid areas, rocky areas, woodlands lining drainage systems.  

This subspecies is restricted to Western Australia extending from Perth north to Dampier and in the south-west Kimberley region.  
Shelters in hollow branches, rock crevices and caves, abandoned burrows. 
It is mainly a nocturnal python occasionally basks in the sun to help digest a meal.

 What do they eat? 

Pythons use their heat seeking pits to feel the warmth given off by other animals.  Stimpson's pythons eat mostly mammals, lizards and in caves it eats bats.  Pythons can eat large prey many times bigger than the size of their belly.  No pythons are big enough to eat humans in Australia.  Some pythons can also go without eating for around a year.

These photographs were taken of my daughter enjoying the snake at shopping centre and library displays in Perth.  We do not know which subspecies they are.

Bothrochilus stimsoni orientalis

Overlaps the northern region of the above species but extends further in NT, northern SA and far western NSW to eastern interior of Qld.

Snakes only have one lung

Text
"Reptiles and Frogs of the Perth Region" by Brian Bush, Brad Maryan, Robert Browne-Cooper and David Robinson.
"Australian Reptiles A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia" by Stephen K Wilson, David G Knowles.

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