could also be a male dispersing from the winter congregations of these serpents especially so if it had not participated in reproduction winters are when pythons come together and dwell in burrows sometimes intercoiling underneath in small groups to share body heat mukherjees studies at the knp using the innovative tool of a burrow video camera showed that bigger pythons would come outside the burrow to bask in sunlight and then go back to share the absorbed heat with younger pythons winter is when pythons mate and here basking is critical for reproduction pregnant females tend to bask more than other females in the winter sunlight to enhance embryonic development so do males as spermatogenesis occurs only at a particular temperature as winter ebbs pregnant females disperse from congregations to find covert spots to lay eggs such as disused porcupine burrows