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Bindi, Jungle Girl: Burmese pythons

Bindi with a Burmese python

Bindi tells you all about her upcoming birthday party and one of her favourite snakes at Australia Zoo — the Burmese python.

Question

Are Burmese pythons poisonous?

Jonah, Battery Hill, QLD.

Answer

No, Jonah, Burmese pythons aren’t poisonous. They have no venom. They coil themselves around their prey and constrict it.

Got a question for Bindi? Post it to Ask Bindi, The Australian Women’s Weekly, GPO Box 4178, Sydney, NSW 2001 or email [email protected].

Bindi’s new television show, Bindi: The Jungle Girl, will screen on ABC TV on Wednesdays at 4.05pm, starting July 18.

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