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Albino Burmese Python

Distribution: Northeastern India, east through China and south through the Malay Peninsula and East Indies except the Philippines.

Size: 13 -18 ft. (4 - 6 m), may reach a maximum of more than 25 ft. (8 m) long.

Habitat and Diet: They are adaptable to a wide variety of habitats such as grasslands, swamps, marshes, rocky foothills, woodlands, jungle and river valleys. They prey upon mammals, birds and reptiles of appropriate size. This albino specimen simply lacks the skin pigment of its more colorful relatives who usually have a pattern of large, reddish brown blotches outlined in cream or gold and overlaying a ground color of pale tan, yellowish-brown or gray.

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