Simalia kinghorni
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The Australian scrub python (Simalia kinghorni), also known commonly as Kinghorn's python and simply as the scrub python is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is indigenous to forests of northern Australia. It is one of the world's longest and largest snakes, and is the longest and largest in Australia. In 2014 it was reclassified to the genus Simalia from Morelia, alongside the rest of the scrub python species.
American herpetologist Olive Griffith Stull described this taxon as Liasis amethistinus kinghorni in 1933 from a specimen at the Museum of Comparative Zoology which had been collected at Lake Barrine in north Queensland, classifying it as a subspecies of the amethystine python based on its larger number of scales. The specific name, kinghorni, is in honour of Australian herpetologist and ornithologist James Roy Kinghorn. It was first raised to species status by Wells and Wellington in 1984, and given the name Australiasis kinghorni. American biologist Michael Harvey and colleagues investigated the amethystine python complex and confirmed its classification as a separate species based on cladistic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences... Wikipedia →
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Australia · 2026
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Columbus Zoo and Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Kyiv Zoo | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 4 | Taronga Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 5 | Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center | 🇵🇭 Philippines | |
| 7 | San Antonio Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Sydney Zoo | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 9 | Reptile Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 11 | Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Scrub Python sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 152 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 4th most-seen of the 31 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February, April–June, August and October
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Scrub Python in Daintree National Park on a given day, against about 40% in March, July, September and November–January, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Australian Scrub Python sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Australian Scrub Python sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pythonidae
The closest relatives of the Australian Scrub Python that you can see in Daintree National Park (family Pythonidae, Pythons) are Carpet Python (about 30%) and Water Python (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Australian Scrub Python is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Daintree National Park (152 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
