{"id":9937,"date":"2021-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/african-rock-python\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:14:22","slug":"afrikanischer-felsenpython","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/african-rock-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrikanischer Felsenpython"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>African Rock Python<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>African Rock Python [Python sebae]\n<p><strong>Appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Rock Python is the largest snake in Africa. There is a large spearhead mark on the top of the head; dark and light stripes radiating from eye to mouth. The body, with dark-brown, black-edged bars and blotches on top, is grey-green\/-brown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Rock Python feeds on fish, monitor lizards and crocodiles, smaller antelope, monkeys, guineafowl and domestic animals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Rock Python is present in sub-Saharan Africa across Central and West Africa, with the Southern African Rock Python found from Kenya through South Africa, where it occurs mainly in the Lowveld, touching the south coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and spreading up the Limpopo river valley to Lobatse in Botswana, as well as into the Northern Cape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breeding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The female lays 30-50 large eggs, which are almost spherical. To protect the eggs, the female wraps around her nest, but she does not incubate them by shivering. It takes 65 &#8211; 80 days for the young to hatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Rock Python Name African Rock Python [Python sebae] Appearance The African Rock Python is the largest snake in Africa. There is a large spearhead mark on the top of the head; dark and light stripes radiating from eye to mouth. The body, with dark-brown, black-edged bars and blotches on top, is grey-green\/-brown. Diet The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}