The Water Python is a northern Australian species that, as its name suggests, is usually associated ith water. It is found around freshwater billabongs,watercourses, lagoons and swamps and feeds on mammals, birds, particularly waterbirds, and reptiles. It is also known to eat birds’ eggs. The Water Pythons around Fogg Dam near Darwin have been found to occur in huge numbers.
Their biology is tied in to that of the water rat ,which is also abundant there. The only food in sufficient quantity for newly hatched Water Pythons to eat are baby water rats. If the rats fail to breed or breed too early, then only very few baby pythons will survive from that year.
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