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Reticulated python

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The reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) is the longest living snake, a pythonid of South and Southeast Asia. Adults usually measure 3–5 m and 20–35 kg; the largest scientifically measured specimen was 6.95 m and 59 kg. Named for its black net-like pattern on a yellow-brown ground, it occupies rainforest, swamp, mangrove and karst, swimming well enough to reach islands. It ambushes mammals, killing by constriction. The IUCN rated it Least Concern in 2018. Females lay 15–80 eggs, which hatch in about 88 days at 31–32 degrees Celsius.

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