Description The Green Python has a thick body and typical python head shape. Adults are an iridescent green, but juvenile snakes are often a bright yellow colour.
Size Up to about 1.5m
Habitat nocturnal python that spends most of its time in trees
Food birds and small mammals and other reptiles
Breeding egg-layer producing up to 20 eggs in a clutch
Range Green Pythons are found in rainforests of Papua New Guinea, a few Indonesian islands and Northern Cape York peninsula, Queensland
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Notes Non venomous, but can be aggressive and inflict painful wound
