Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Green Tree Python (Scott) - Growing Up Wild. - video Dailymotion

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Robert & Bindi Irwin showcase their wildest animals at Australia Zoo. Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://full.sc/HbM62v Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: gplus.to/thepetcollective  One of the Wiggliest animals at Australia Zoo is the beautiful Green Tree Python Scott. Green Tree Pythons can be found in Cape York in the North of Australia. Unfortunately their beautiful colour has made them a target for the illegal pet trade. Green Tree Pythons hunt mainly birds, bat and rodents using heat sensing pits located just below their jaw. They lure the animals in with the tip of their tail that looks like a worm. They are constrictors who squeeze their food before they eat it.  Cast Robert and Bindi Irwin.       Crew; Producer: Tom Armstrong, Camera Operator: Ryan Mooney, Sound Recordist: Scott Mulready. Editor: Lucy Garrick, Graphics: Matt White.

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00:00This is Scott, the wiggly little green tree python, 15 years old, so he's still pretty

00:17young.

00:18Do you know how old they live for?

00:19They can live for 35 years.

00:21These guys live in Cape York in Australia.

00:25This guy will mainly eat different sorts of birds, mainly birds, because he's actually

00:30arboreal, which means he lives way up in the trees.

00:33And he's got an awesome colouration, you can see how it's, on the top it's more of that

00:37green colour, then it goes down and a lot lighter colour.

00:41Yeah.

00:42Do you know why the snakes have a forked tongue?

00:45That's so they can smell things a lot better.

00:47A fork, so that they know what direction their food is in.

00:51These guys have a really, really cool way of hunting.

00:54If you look, see there on the end of his tail, how it's more of a darker colour?

00:59That's actually called a caudal lure, that's to lure birds in, and they'll wiggle it around

01:05and it looks like a worm, so the bird will fly in, have a look, and then they'll chomp

01:10it, then because they're actually constrictors, they'll coil around it, squeeze all the air

01:16out, and then they'll eat it.

01:19These snakes are also pretty cool because they have incredible heat sensing pits, don't

01:24they Robert?

01:25Yeah, so it's right near the front, and what they can do is that they can actually detect

01:29the animal that they're going to eat.

01:31And we're lucky to have this little guy because the poor green tree pythons have had a bit

01:36of a rough go, they've been collected for the pet trade, and of course they don't make

01:41very good pets unfortunately, they belong in the wild.

01:46We've got lots more animals that swim, fly and crawl, so make sure you join us next time.

01:52And if you want to see more of the adventures at Australia Zoo, subscribe to the Pet Collective

01:57channel.

01:58Woohoo!

Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Green Tree Python (Scott) - Growing Up Wild.

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