Burmese Python

Zone:
Folly Interactive

Diet:
Carnivore

Taxa:
Reptile

Conservation Status:
Near Threatened

Burmese Pythons have poor eyesight so stalk their prey using chemical receptors in their tongues and heat-sensors along the jaws.

They kill by constriction, grasping a victim with their sharp teeth, coiling their bodies around the animal, and squeezing until it suffocates.  They have stretchy ligaments in their jaws that allow them to swallow all their food whole.