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Also known as the black-tailed python, the Asian rock python or the Indian rock python, the Indian python (Python molurus) is a large python native to southern and southeast Asia. It is found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. It typically grows to about 3 metres in length, although the largest confirmed Indian python on record was a 4,6 metre long individual from Pakistan.

It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including open jungle, swamps, marshes, grasslands, river valleys, and rocky foothills. They feed on a wide range of mammals, birds and reptiles, of which they seem to prefer mammals. After swallowing a large meal, the snake will lie pretty much motionless, as depending on what kind of animal it has swallowed, it may risk the prey's claws, hooves or horns tearing its skin if it moves too quickly. If threatened by a potential predator while in this state, it will regurgitate its meal in order to escape.
Like other snakes, it can go for ages between meals. The longest known fast of an Indian python was about 2 years!

The female lays up to 100 eggs, and incubates them. By strategically contracting her muscles, she is able to slightly raise the temperature inside the nest slightly.

The IUCN lists the species as "Near Threatened".

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Description
Also known as the black-tailed python, the Asian rock python or the Indian rock python, the Indian python (Python molurus) is a large python native to southern and southeast Asia. It is found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. It typically grows to about 3 metres in length, although the largest confirmed Indian python on record was a 4,6 metre long individual from Pakistan.

It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including open jungle, swamps, marshes, grasslands, river valleys, and rocky foothills. They feed on a wide range of mammals, birds and reptiles, of which they seem to prefer mammals. After swallowing a large meal, the snake will lie pretty much motionless, as depending on what kind of animal it has swallowed, it may risk the prey's claws, hooves or horns tearing its skin if it moves too quickly. If threatened by a potential predator while in this state, it will regurgitate its meal in order to escape.
Like other snakes, it can go for ages between meals. The longest known fast of an Indian python was about 2 years!

The female lays up to 100 eggs, and incubates them. By strategically contracting her muscles, she is able to slightly raise the temperature inside the nest slightly.

The IUCN lists the species as "Near Threatened".

Feel free to download any of my Spore PNGs!