Python bivittatus

• The female Burmese python can warm its eggs by muscle contractions, raising the temperature inside its body coils by several degrees. This occurs over 55–85 days while she remains near the nest.
• The Burmese python can kill and swallow young deer, goats, and pigs. Larger individuals do this as they grow.
• The Burmese python can swallow very large prey, but can also go hungry for long periods. It can survive extended periods without food, for example, over several months.
• The Burmese python can stay underwater for up to half an hour. Adult individuals, due to their large mass, mainly lead a terrestrial lifestyle.
• The Burmese python can live up to 25 years in captivity. They reach sexual maturity at 2.5–4 years but continue growing throughout their lives.
• The popularity of the Burmese python in the USA led to its illegal release into the wild. People who were tired of pythons or could not keep adult snakes released them into the wild.
• The Burmese python can reach a length of more than 4 meters. In the wild, individuals up to 5 meters long and weighing up to 75 kg have been recorded.
• The record length of a female Burmese python is 5.74 meters. This was a snake kept in captivity — the python nicknamed "Baby".
• Burmese pythons may be dangerous to humans, even though they usually behave peacefully. When handled improperly, even in captivity, they can pose a certain danger, especially if the snake is large.
• The dark Burmese python hunts the same prey as Florida panthers. Large specimens, reaching up to 5.5 meters, are considered full-fledged top predators.
• Breeding has allowed the creation of popular color morphs of the dark Burmese python, including albinos. Albinos have become especially popular among reptile keepers.
• The dark Burmese python detects prey mainly by smell and thermal radiation using thermoreceptors on the upper lip scales. These pits—thermoreceptors allow it to find animals even in the dark.