Green Tree Python

• biologíaThe young hatch yellow or reddish and turn green gradually as they mature, an ontogenetic colour change.
• The young are born a bright yellow or a brick red and turn green between six months and a year old, a complete change of colour whose function is still debated.
• It is a textbook case of evolutionary convergence with the South American emerald tree boa: the same posture coiled in loops over a branch, the same green, the same size and no close relationship.
• It hunts by hanging the front of its body in a hook shape and waving the tip of its tail as a lure to draw in lizards and rodents.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Canopy and middle storey of rainforest of New Guinea, neighbouring islands and northern Queensland

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

56 days

Litter / clutch size

15 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morelia_viridis

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.