{"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":"2025-05-15T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:56","slug":"python-de-roche-africain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/african-rock-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Python de Seba"},"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, chimpanzees, 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 in the Lowveld from Kenya through South Africa, touching the south coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and spreading to Lobatse in Botswana and the Northern Cape along the Limpopo river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breeding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The female lays 30-50 large eggs, which are almost spherical. To secure the larvae, the female wraps around her nest, but she does not incubate them by shivering. It takes 65 &#8211; 80 days for the young 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\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}