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Western Stimson's Python
Description
Pale brown, yellowish brown to cream, irregularly marked with darker brown to reddish brown, smooth-edged, circular to long blotches.
Where They Like To Live
Shelters in hollow limbs, rock crevices and caves, abandoned burrows, termitaria and surface debris.
Other Places They like To Live
Terrestrial. Excavates sloping burrow, with expanded terminal cavity, at base of low vegetation. Several burrows may provide shelter for one individual.
Black Headed Python
Description
Ground colour cream, pale yellowish-brown to reddish-brown.
Where They Like To Live
Woodlands, rocky ranges and outcrops of sub-humid northern Australia. Absent from extremely arid areas, and from cracking clay soils of western Qld. and adjacent N.T. Extends from North West Cape, W.A. through northern N.T. (as far south as Tea-Tree) to Qld. (south on coast to Gladstone district).
Other Places They like To Live
Shelters in hollow logs, crevices, caves and abandoned burrows of monitors and mammals. Apart from petting the animals, you have the opportunity to feed many of the parks animals. Always feed with the palm facing upwards, so the animals can easily eat their food.
Ridge-Tailed Monitor
Description
Ground colour black, dark brown to dull or rich reddish brown
Where They Like To Live
Subhumid to arid north-western two-thirds of Australia. Favours hard soils and rocky areas supporting woodlands and shrub lands with dominant ground cover of tussock or hummock grasses. V. a. insulanicus is known only from islands of north-western NT., including Groote Eylandt, and Guluwuru and Marchinbar Islands in the Wessel Group. V. a. acanthurus occupies remainder.
Other Places They like To Live
Shelters in rock crevices, beneath abandoned termitaria or in shallow burrows excavated beneath rocks, logs or dense low vegetation.
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