Asian Rock python

By Aidan

Scales-physical features• The scales on a Asian rock

pythons skin help it hide in the ground, grasslands, and trees. It`s dark and light colors help it hide from predators and prey. It help’s it hide because the grass is tan and brown just like the snake’s scales.

More about scales and physical features.

• The Asian rock python scales makes it hard to see. The Asian rock pythons light and dark colors help it hide from enemy and prey the pythons skin is tan and the patches are brown.

length

• Some Asian Rock Pythons can grow to a length of 20 feet, but some only grown to 12 feet.

• Sometimes a 15 foot python can grow up to as thick as a basketball.

How They Get Their food

• Asian pythons ambush their prey. It lies and waits on ground or low tree branches so prey until prey gets close. Then it moves quickly to attack.

How They Get Their Food

• The pythons teeth are curved to the back of it’s mouth. Their teeth help hold tightly to it’s victim. With their amazing speed the rock python coils around the animal.

How they get their food.

• The python squeezes the animal until it has been suffocated. Once the prey is dead,

the snakes swallows its meal.