### animal | vertebrate | reptile | serpent | constrictor | boa:

Python
* All pythons are constrictors, and none are venemous
  - non-venomous carnivores as they kill their prey by constriction
  - have heat-sensitive pits located on their upper lips that detect the body heat of prey
* Most pythons attack prey
  - consume mammals
  - digest food
* Most pythons eat animals
  - rats
  - rodents
  - feed on food
* Most pythons have eyes
  - jaws
* Most pythons have long life
  - reproductive life
  - lower jaws
  - meals
  - organs
  - physiology
  - ranges
  - sensory organs
  - triangular heads
  - upper jaws
  - identify prey
* Most pythons kill animals
  - prey animals
  - live in areas
  - rely on smell
  - survive for years
* Some pythons ambush prey
  - are different, many ball pythons, for instance, like eating hamsters instead of mice
  - catch prey
* Some pythons eat adult mice
  - alligators
  - bugs
  - goats
  - porcupines
* Some pythons escape cages
  - from cages
  - feed on lizards
* Some pythons have ages
  - claws
  - cloacas
  - difficulty
  - enemies
* Some pythons have natural enemies
  - predators
  - sides
* Some pythons live for decades
  - in rainforests
* Some pythons reach maturity
  - reproductive maturity
  - sexual maturity.
  * are reptiles without limbs. Their long body only consists of a head, trunk and tail
* are a big problem in Florida
  - family of snakes
  - sub-family of the Family Boidae, or boas
  - yellowish green color when they are young and turn darker green as they mature
  - able to swallow their prey whole because of their hinged jaws
  - cold-blooded animals, but they can increase their body temperature through sunbathing
  - fairly docile creatures, even in the wild
  - good climbers and have prehensile tails
  - in fact rather slow animals if moving is about travelling from one place to another
  - indigenous to Africa, Asia and Australia
  - individuals and they each behave differently
  - largely ambush hunters and they feed on vertebrate prey
  - more closely related to boas than to any other snake family
  - mostly 'ambush hunters' that lunge at passing animals from a hiding place
  - non-venomous constrictors found in tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, and Australia
  - one of the largest snakes
  - oviparous, meaning it produces eggs, which develop and hatch outside the body
  - present in the park in large number
  - programming language
  - roller coasters
  - spirit
  - the largest species of snake in Africa
  - tracked daily for a few days after release, and then tracked by plane once a week
  - weapons
  - their prey from the ambush
* can be difficult to find and watch long enough to learn their habits
  - kill their prey in minutes and they swallow their food whole
* compete with native species like the American alligator for food and resource s.
* enjoy meals.
* feed on a variety of birds and mammals
  - young aardvarks as well
* find active way of foraging.
* have a supra-orbital bone and premaxillary teeth
  - four rows of teeth in their upper jaw
  - no venom and use their strong bodies to immobilise their victims
  - one more bone in their head than boas do and some additional teeth
  - reputations
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - by constriction, crushing their prey
* lay eggs with leathery shells
  - eggs, unlike boa constrictors
* like to eat warm-blooded prey and they also consume crocodiles and iguanas.
  - the tropical areas of Africa and Asia
  - mainly on the ground, but they are also excellent swimmers and climbers
* metabolize prey to fuel the response to feeding.
* prey on birds and other reptiles, but they prefer small mammals, such as rats.
* slowly squeeze their prey and it suffocates to death or dies of fright.
* still have little spurs at the rear of the body where their legs used to be.
* strike with incredible velocity and kill their prey by constriction.
* suck their prey from a distance.
* swallow animals
* typically stay in a camouflaged position and then suddenly strike.