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Carpet Python
Morelia spilota (Carpet Python · カーペットニシキヘビ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its average length of about 2 m is similar to the height of a room door (Comparison).
- 💡 South Australian government records note that this snake enters quiet places such as pump sheds or roof spaces to prey on rats and mice.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Carpet Python is a python widely distributed across Australia and New Guinea, living in diverse habitats from rainforests to semi-arid regions.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Highly variable in pattern and color, it has black blotches over a light to dark brown background, and a cream or yellow belly mixed with grey spots.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
Often in trees but also living in burrows dug by other animals, it moves mainly at dusk and night to ambush frogs, lizards, birds, and mammals. In mid-spring to early summer it lays 9–54 eggs, with females breeding about once every 2–3 years.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2017) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/62232/21649539
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • catalogueoflife.org — 6RPMC
- • iucnredlist.org — 21649539
- • wikidata.org — Q575770
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Morelia spilota variegata 2.jpg
- • cdn.environment.sa.gov.au — pa-fact-carpetpython.pdf
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — DS Biswas · CC BY 4.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Python bivittatus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.