Check out Australia Zoo’s Scrub Python!

Don’t miss Australia’s largest python species, right here at Australia Zoo; the scrub python. Keep your camera handy because these impressive reptiles can be spotted in Robert’s Reptile House!

The scrub python is found throughout the tropical rainforests of far tropical north Queensland. They are the largest snake species to call Australia home. They can reach up to 8 metres (26 feet) long and weigh in excess of 25 kilograms (55 pounds)!

These impressive hunters are often spotted under the cover of darkness in search of their prey. Scrub pythons are non-venomous. They will use their large teeth to secure their prey, before wrapping their muscular body into coils, suffocating and consuming their prey whole! On the menu for these reptiles are rodents, fruit bats, possums, even animals as large as juvenile kangaroos. Crikey!

The female scrub python is a very protective mother! She will lay up to 20 eggs and coil herself on top of them to generate heat. This also prevents animals such as goannas and feral pigs preying on them.

Scrub pythons are a force to be reckoned with! They often have a feisty attitude to back their enormous size! They are a species of least concern. You little ripper!