In this photo provided by the Perth Zoo, a Rough-scaled Python which has been bred at the Perth Zoo in Perth, Australia is pictured Jan. 18, 2008. The rough-scaled Python, one of Australia's rarest pythons, is one of eight to be hatched successfully over three days between Jan. 10-12. Discovered about 30 years ago in the far north-west of Western Australia, only a small number of Rough-scaled Pythons have been discovered and virtually nothing is known of their biology and behavior in the wild. Each one of the python's scales has a central keeled ridge which gives it a rough, sandpaper feel and its common name of Rough-scaled Python. The pythons grow to an approximate length of two meters and have one of the smallest home ranges of any snake, living in the far northwestern Kimberly region of Western Australia
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