Seneca Park Zoo is home to one Burmese python. Caulkins is a male, and he resides inside the Zoo’s Creatures from the River’s Edge building. He was hatched in 2016 right here at Seneca Park Zoo. His parents were longtime zoo residents Abby and Mr. Slithers.
The Burmese python eats appropriately sized mammals, reptiles, and birds.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List status
It has been slaughtered to supply the world leather market, as well as for folk medicines and captured for the pet trade. In recent years, extensive captive breeding has helped reduce the threat to Burmese pythons in their native habitat. However, the unauthorized release of pet Burmese pythons into the Everglades has led to the introduction of an invasive species, disrupting the fragile ecosystem.
