Python Carpet behavior

The Carpet Python is a moderately sized Python native to Australia and New Guinea. They are a threatened species and, while sometimes captured for the pet trade, the snakes are more often used for their skins. Carpet Pythons and other large snakes are an essential part of the global family and are very important to humans.

Carpet Pythons often dwell in piles of leaves, hollow trees or logs, amid rocks, or in caves.There are at least seven subspecies of Carpet Python, all of which interbreed. During the hot summer months, Carpet Pythons are nocturnal, meaning they are active at night. When the weather is cooler, however, they are diurnal, which means active during the day.

The name "Carpet Python" comes from the markings on the various varieties of the snakes, which many people feel resembles an oriental carpet. Many Carpet Pythons dwell in abandoned burrows of other animals.