Around Our School

One of our Samuel Gilbert families had an interesting visitor to their yard! About 2 metre in length - a diamond python, harmless to us but useful to the environment.

He was falling off the branches but was rescued by a herpetologist who later took him back into the bushland with a clean bill of health.

Diamond Python Facts :

• grows to 2-3 metres
• dark brown/black in colour with cream /yellow spots that can look like diamonds.
• not venomous
• mostly nocturnal
• kills its prey by coiling around it
• eats birds, rats, mice, possums, bandicoots
• baby diamonds eat mostly lizards