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African Python
Scientific Name: Python sabae
Nick Name: African Rock Python
Size: At 30 ft. in length
Appearance: It is very bulky and has a dark arrowhead shape on its head. Brown blotches outlined by black on tan background surround its body.They can get to be over 250 lbs. They look like they would be slimy, but they are dry and smooth to the touch.
Type: Non Venomous Snake
Nature: Non aggressive unless appraoched. Can strike leaving painful bites. But is not at all dangerous.
Habitat: Found
Feeds on: They eat crocodiles, pigs, goats, birds, gazelles, and cats.They don't chew their food but have strong acids in their stomach that digests their food well. Normally they eat small animals but if hungry enough they will eat very large animals.Farmers think the rock python is useful because they eat large cane rats.
All pythons kill by constricting their prey. The African rock python can live for up to a year without food if the animal it eats is big enough to sustain it. Starch ligaments hold the jaw together, which stretches out like a rubber band allowing it to eat prey as big as an antelope. Small teeth surround its jaw. The teeth are used to hold prey as the python coils its body around it.
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