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The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the five largest species of snakes in the world (about the third-largest as measured either by length
or weight). It is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas
of South and Southeast Asia.
They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic,
but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average 3.7 m long,
but have been known to reach 5.74 m .
Burmese pythons are mainly nocturnal rainforest dwellers. When young, they are equally at home on the ground and in trees, but as they gain girth, they tend to restrict most of their movements to the ground. They are also excellent swimmers, being able to stay submerged for up to half an hour. Burmese pythons spend the majority of their time hidden in the underbrush.
Like all snakes, the Burmese python is carnivorous. Its diet consists
primarily of appropriately sized birds and mammals. The snake uses its
sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize its prey, then wraps its body
around the prey, at the same time contracting its muscles, killing
the prey by constriction. It is often found near human habitation due
to the presence of rats, mice, and other vermin as a food source.
Burmese pythons are often sold as pets Although this species has a reputation for docility, they are very powerful animals, capable of inflicting severe bites or even killing a keeper by constriction.
Part design work, part welding practice this was an attempt at a centre-steered python style bicycle.
Owned by: City of Orlando - Public Works - Solid Waste Management Bureau
Chassis: Mack LE (Low Entry)
Body manufacturer: Heil Circular Pack (CP) Python
Type of truck: Automated Side Loader (ASL) garbage truck
Additional notes: Learn more about Orlando Public Works: www.cityoforlando.net/public_works/solidwaste/index.htm
There is a YouTube video available of this truck in action, you can see it here: City of Orlando (in action) Heil CP Python ASL 6-07-10
Location of photo: Orange County, FL
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This Python was crossing the road between old Laura Homestead and Laura near Lakefield National Park in North Queensland. It was being harassed by a couple of Magpies. This species is also found in Papua New Guinea and the islands off the top of Australia. This species varies a lot in pattern and colour. I first thought that it was an Amethystine. Thanks Aaron for identifying it as Carpet.
The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the five largest species of snakes in the world (about the third-largest as measured either by length
or weight). It is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas
of South and Southeast Asia.
They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic,
but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average 3.7 m long,
but have been known to reach 5.74 m .
Burmese pythons are mainly nocturnal rainforest dwellers. When young, they are equally at home on the ground and in trees, but as they gain girth, they tend to restrict most of their movements to the ground. They are also excellent swimmers, being able to stay submerged for up to half an hour. Burmese pythons spend the majority of their time hidden in the underbrush.
Like all snakes, the Burmese python is carnivorous. Its diet consists
primarily of appropriately sized birds and mammals. The snake uses its
sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize its prey, then wraps its body
around the prey, at the same time contracting its muscles, killing
the prey by constriction. It is often found near human habitation due
to the presence of rats, mice, and other vermin as a food source.
Burmese pythons are often sold as pets Although this species has a reputation for docility, they are very powerful animals, capable of inflicting severe bites or even killing a keeper by constriction.
peeking behind the tulip.
Strobist: Canon 580exii with 1/4 CTO @ 1/32 105 mm
Lens: canon 100 mm macro @f2.8
Python reticulatus
The second-largest snake in the world, originating in southeast Asia and the
Indo-Australian archipelago. Longer than the Anaconda, but much lighter.
Order: Squamata - Snakes and Lizards
Family: Boidae - Boas and Pythons
I prepared this specimen.
(Those teeth are SHARP! This was a very painful skull to prepare.)
De Python is een attractie in de Efteling. De Python werd geopend op 12 april 1981 en was destijds de langste achtbaan op het Europese vasteland. De Python heeft bovendien 4 inversies (twee loopings en twee kurkentrekkers), wat voor 1981 spectaculair was.
De beide treinen, oorspronkelijk geleverd door de firma Vekoma uit Vlodrop (Limburg), zijn in 2005 vervangen door treintjes van de uit het faillissement van Vekoma doorgestarte firma Kumbak Coasters. Vanaf seizoen 2006 rijden de treintjes met nieuwe beugels. Tevens is de sticker met slangenprint vervangen door spuitwerk en is er een staart toegevoegd.
De Python is een van de bekendste en meest bezochte attracties van de Efteling.
My house is like a bloody zoo! I heard a loud thud from above at about 8.30pm and went outside to find this enormous carpet python had slipped off the roof, down the verandah and landed in the gutter of the house. The split second after I took this photo the snake dislocated its jaws and continued to open them by 180 degrees in what looked like a massive yawn (or perhaps a friendly warning). In the following second that it took to recharge the flash, I'd missed a very special shot. I spat the dummy and did the kick yourself dance for quite a while. I can only imagine what it must be like to sit, perched in a tree, for 3 months, waiting for the pivotal moment in the life cycle of some endangered species and then miss the shot completely!
This was taken in Langkawi, Malaysia, it is totally in the wild. It may not be a python, if you know, please let me know.
Genus/species: Python reticulatus (Pythonidae)
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Normally colored reticulated pythons have several pigments: melanin (blacks), and xanthins (yellows) amongst other more subtle colors. Lemondrop is a “lavender albino” which is the same thing as a “tyrosinase positive albino” (t-positive) which have the inability to complete the synthesis of melanin but can produce other melanin related pigments such as various shades of brown grey and red resulting the “lavender” color. A “normal albino” (t-negative) reticulated python is yellow and white with pink/red eyes. Melanin and other melanin pigments areas are pure white but non-melanin pigments are present giving alternate colors (xanthines produce yellows). To make matters more complicated different albino snakes may have mutations giving them additional color morphs.
Our albino American Alligator, (Claude) Alligator mississippiensis is a “normal albino” (t-negative) with no melanin or non-melanin pigments making him pure white. If you google “t-positive albino” or “tyrosinase positive albino” you can find a lot more information on this condition.
(Albino Appearance Ref. Nicole Chaney Biologist II, California Academy of Sciences for basic albino information)
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Myanmar and India, across Southeast Asia and on many of the islands of the Philippines and Indonesia.
Found on the ground, in caves or in trees and they have adapted to
living in towns and cities.
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Monty Python cosplayer at the 2015 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
This is a very large specimen we only partially glimpsed on the forest floor just off the track to Crystal Falls, that is a fly on its back. The snake was moving uphill surprisingly quickly so I followed it through the fern understory while dodging low-growing stinging trees. Shutter and ISO are a little high due to the low light levels and hand held shooting at 400 mm. This body section is probably around 15 cm in diameter, overall length at least 3 metres.
This would be Morelia spilota mcdowelli, a subspecies of Morelia spilota, commonly known as the carpet python, and is informally named the Eastern, Coastal or McDowell's Carpet python. Although Wells & Wellington (1984) is somewhat 'controversial' (taxonomic vandalism apparently). blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/taxonomic-v...
They are active by day or night (nocturnal and diurnal) feeding mainly on possums, rats, flying foxes and birds, and occasionally poultry, domestic cats and small dogs. Attempts at eating cane toads are fatal. They lay up to ~35 eggs and sometimes exhibit unpredictable and aggressive behavior. Bites are not venomous, but can cause lacerations. Tetanus protection is recommended.
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A captive Children's python (Antaresia childreni) eating a dead rat. She dragged it into her little hidey-hole, and I thought she had eaten it. But a few minutes later the rat appeared outside. She must have had difficulty trying to swallow it in the confines of her box, so she moved outside where she could finally eat it.
Mandelbrot plot created using pyCUDA with Python. Shows a 1000x1000 plot with max iterations set at 1000.
Pure CUDA time on GTX 480 - 0.07 seconds.
Python with numpy time on same card - 43.4 seconds (4,800* slower!).
Code is here: ianozsvald.com/2010/07/14/22937-faster-python-math-using-...
Young blood python, snapped a lot, like the mouse. and fingers, But was calm
after handling. My 50th pet snake or 51th hard to keep count. Easy to keep.
lives long with proper care.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata (chordates with backbones)
Class: Reptilia (turtles, crocodilians, snakes, lizards and tuatara
Order: Squamata (scaled reptiles)
Suborder: Serpentes (snakes)
Family: Pythonidae (pythons)
Genus/species: Morelia viridis
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Adults are green with a distinct ridge of scales that is usually white to yellow in coloration and forms a broken or continuous line down the length of the body.
Ventrally, the scales are generally yellow. Juveniles may be either bright yellow or brick-red. They have series of white blotches edged in black or brown. A white streak edged in black runs from the nostril through the eye and to the back of the head.
Average length of 1.5 m (5 ft); with the largest up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Found in the Mainland New Guinea, its offshore islands, and in eastern Indonesia and in the northeast Cape York Peninsula of Australia. Found mainly in moist forests from lowland to mid-montane altitudes.
DIET IN THE WILD: They are nocturnal hunter when larger nocturnal prey are active as well. M. viridis changes color when it changes its diet from small reptiles and invertebrates to rodents and birds in the rainforest canopy.
REPRODUCTION: M. viridis exhibit some maternal care by brooding their eggs before they hatch. Females have been observed coiling around their clutches. They will often shiver and contract their coils, apparently to produce metabolic heat and thus maintaining a temperature, which ranges from 84 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yellow and red individuals averaging 30.5 cm (12.8 inches) in length hatch out of 6 to 32 eggs in captivity but colors are separate on different islands.
PREDATORS: Main predators of green tree pythons are rufous owls, black butcherbirds, and an assortment of diurnal raptors.
CONSERVATION: IUCN Red List Least Concern (LC)
Threats: It is becoming increasingly popular in the pet trade.
REMARKS: Each color stage appears to provide camouflage suitable to its immediate habitat. As a young snake, the red or yellow color blends in better in forest gaps or edges, where smaller animals reside. Adult green coloration blends in best in the closed canopy of the rainforest, where larger prey live.
References
California Academy of Sciences, Color of Life exhibit June 2015
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1xT
IUCN Red List www.iucnredlist.org/details/177524/0
Animal Diversity Web animaldiversity.org/accounts/Morelia_viridis/
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