A Snake by Another Name

Bredl’s Python is also known as the Centralian Carpet Python since it can be found in central Australia. The species occupies rocky outcroppings and ridges in savannas, deserts, and wetlands, but is arboreal in woodlands and forests, easily climbing shrubs and trees.

See the Heat

Pythons have heat sensitive pits around the edge of their mouth and nose. These pits can help them detect the heat signature of their prey. This allows them to hunt at night where they do not use their eyes to hunt, but their heat pits. They are nocturnal during summer months but diurnal during spring and autumn when evening temperatures get too low at night. They usually eat small mammals, birds and reptiles and even small wallabies. In human occupied areas, they have also been known to eat domestic cats.

To learn more, download the Bredl’s Python fact sheet.