Mr. Bug

FACT FILE

Name: Eric and Monty

Species: Royal python

Found: Grasslands, West Africa

Age: 10 and 15 years

Gender: Male

Length: 1 metre

Favourite food: Rats

Extreme feature: the small pink dimples on the upper lip of this snake are heat pits: they allow the snake to detect heat given off by warm-blooded prey.

Monty and Eric are royal pythons. In the wild, these are found hunting through the grasslands of countries such as Nigeria and Ghana. They are small and well-camouflaged, and hiding in burrows and under tree roots during the day, and emerging at night to hunt.