Darling Murray Darling: An Australian Carpet Python Story

"Oh, how lucky to be a Murray-Darling Carpet Python like me!"

Join Darling on her quest to survive and thrive in her Murraylands and Riverland habitat.

The Murray-Darling Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei) is a native python found across Southeastern Australia. Once considered common in South Australia, the Murray-Darling Carpet Python is now regarded as rare in the Murraylands and Riverland region due to land clearance, habitat fragmentation, foxes, illegal poaching, and removal of fallen hollow logs and ground cover.

Heather Freeman loves to write about Australian bush and wildlife. Heather dreams her stories will entertain and engage children with the natural world.