green tree python

The Green Tree Python lives in areas where most people will never get a chance to see one up close.The color of the Green Tree Python is a lime green. They may have a yellow color too depending on where you find them. For that reason though they are often mistaken for other species of snakes. Sometimes they even have blue tint. They can be up to 6 ½ feet long when they are fully mature.

• Countries they live in:

New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Cape York Peninsula in Australia are the main locations for this species of snake. Since they blend in so well it is hard to know how many of them are really available.

They live in trees, forest regions, and tall grasses. In some locations their habitat continues to be taken away. Efforts by humans including logging continue to clear out areas where they live.

• What do they do?

The Green Tree Python spends most of its live living in the trees. They will loop a coil around the trees and place their head in the middle.

They are well known to bite when someone or something provokes them. The males become more aggressive when they are looking for mates. The females become more aggressive when they have eggs to protect.

• What do they eat?

Rodents, reptiles, and other small living things make up the majority of the diet for the Green Tree Python. They bite their prey and they will constrict around it. This is going to suffocate the prey so that it won’t be able to move or to breathe. Then will open up the jaws and swallow the prey. It can take days or weeks for the food they eat to fully digest.

• Is the green python dangerous?

it's not too venomous.But, it is still important to be able to get medical attention after such a bite to prevent an infection. Researches suggests they aren’t strong enough or large enough to crush a human but they have been known to try to do so.