The Terra Natura Benidorm family of animals grows. On this occasion, we celebrate the birth of 9 babies of green tree python, a species with difficulties to reproduce in captivity. This snake presents a hard incubation process where it needs specific environmental conditions, so because of this, no reproductive process has been successfully completed.
Morelia viridis is a python native from Australia, New Papua, Guinea and Solomon Islands. In Terra Natura Benidorm there is a male and two females; for the reproduction, it has been necessary to recreate their original environment, so to do this, the experts have pretended the rainy season with soft temperatures in their cubicles that favors their reproductive processes.
In this way, finally, one of the females felt pregnant, changing its usual bright green color to a blue tone caused by the ovulation and the pregnancy.
The green arboreal python usually gives birth between 5 and 20 eggs. In this specific case, our young female has deposited 9 eggs that were incubated between 50 and 65 days. In this period of time eggs were hatched and the offspring were born. At first, they are red and yellow and later they will change into the green color so characteristic.
The offspring will be inside the installations with the zookeepers taking care of them till they fully adapt to the environment. A male offspring will be exposed to the public, who has been baptized as Leo by the zookeepers. The new specimen will be with the two females and the male that already are in the park so they can be able to guarantee possible reproductions in the future.
The Morelia Viridis is not a poisonous species, but its bite can be painful because it has long fangs. Their length oscillates between 1’8 and 2’4 meters and they are fed with rodents and others reptiles.