Southern rock python
The southern African rock python ("Python natalensis") is a large python species native to Southern Africa inhabiting savanna and woodland. It was first described by Andrew Smith in 1833. Description. Differences from "Python sebae". The southern rock python has a colouration that is similar to its northern relative, however it is described as being "drabber". Below the light stripe on both snakes' head, the southern subspecies has a narrower dark patch that resembles a stripe instead of a patch. The African Rock Python ("Python sebae") has two prominent light lines from the nose, over the eye to  the back of the head, which are much duller in the Southern African Python. The northern subspecies has considerably larger head scales. Also noticeably inferior by size of an African rock python Size. The Southern rock pythons reach an average length of between 2.8 and 4 metres. Individual with a length of sea as 4.6 meters is a strange versky island. Regarding body length and mass, this species exhibits sexual dimorphism, as females are significantly larger and heavier than males. Of 75 individuals measured in South Africa the longest female was 4.34 meters long and weighed 53.4 kilograms. The largest  male was 4.23 meters long and weighed 31.1 kilograms. There is one reliable record of a living specimen reaching 5.56 meters long. This is written in the former Kingdom Zoeloeland, the Fitz Simons (1930) and in the slangpark te Port Elizabeth vertoon. is uit the former Transvaal afkomstig. That was, according to Branch & Haacke (1980), a total length of 5.8 meters.