Python molurus bivittatus
Tigerpython / Tigerpython 

Length: Up to 10 metres
Habitat: Tropical rainforests in areas near water and rocks. They are found in Indochina, Malaysia, western Indonesia and southern China.
Sexual maturity: 3–4 years
Incubation period: 8 weeks
Number of eggs per clutch: 10–40
Food: Mammals and birds
Life expectancy: 50 years

Snakes are deaf, but have a highly sensitive olfactory organ in the palate. The snake finds its prey by gathering scent molecules with its tongue and then sticking the tip of the tongue into its sensory “Jacobson’s organ”.
A python is a constricting snake that holds onto its prey with its teeth and constricts/crushes it with its muscular body. It does this to mould the prey, which it swallows whole. Snakes are capable of opening their mouths very wide, because their upper and lower jaw bones are not attached, as they are in humans. The size of the prey compared to the snake is very impressive. A 7.5-metre-long python has been observed eating a pig weighing 55 kg!
As snakes have no breastbone, their ribs can be greatly expanded. This enables snakes to swallow prey much bigger than themselves.