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I collected these autographs way back when Monty Python were filming the village idiot sketch in Heydon, Norfolk in the 1970's. I would have been in my early teen years. Sadly I know all the sketches off by heart...but then, don't we all?
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.
6-22-12, 2015
This is one vicious little creature. He experiences great pleasure from gobbling up freshly killed rodents and poking holes in human skin.
My pet Ball Python, "Puff" outside getting some exercise. She is a female and about four feet long. She doesn't mind being held. She has an interesting skin texture and patterns, called "eyes". Look closely and you can see individual scales.
TAXONOMY
Family: Pythonidae (Pythons)
Genus/species: Aspidites ramsayi
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Like the black-headed python,
the Woma’s head is unusually narrow for a python. Gray, olive, brown, or red-brown above with darker olive brown to black crossbands on the body. Sides and undersides pale.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Central and southwest Australia. Found in arid zones on sandplains and dune fields. Shelters in hollow logs, animals burrows, or vegetation during the day.
DIET IN THE WILD: A nocturnal hunter of small mammals, ground birds, and lizards. Because it hunts its prey in narrow tunnels, it cannot throw coils around its target. Instead the snake pushes a loop of its body against the prey, crushing it to death against the side of the burrow.
ACADEMY DIET: One rat every 2 weeks. (M Avila, Academy biologist)
REPRODUCTION: Oviparous, like all pythons. The female coils around the 5–20 eggs, protecting and warming them with heat generated by muscular “shivering” for the 2–3 month incubation period.
REPRODUCTION: This snake is oviparous, like all pythons. The female coils around the five to 20Meggs, protecting and warming them with heat generated by muscular "shivering" for the two to three-month incubation period.
CONSERVATION: Listed as endangered on the IUCN’s Red List. Threats include the clearing of land for agriculture and grazing, and perhaps high predation by foxes and feral cats.
The Adelaide Zoo in South Australia is coordinating a captive breeding program with offspring being released to the wild. Active research is aimed at returning the woma to its former range.
REMARKS: The woma, like its relative the blackheaded python, lacks the heat-sensing pits that border the mouth of most other pythons. The woma is a prized food item for desert Aboriginal people. Hunters follow the track of a woma to its burrow and then dig it out.
Water Planet Water Independence WP01
5-31-13, 11-7-14, 2015
Paul Brian @lifeisstillgood – gives his presentation on Simplicity frameworks and Egyptian hieroglyphics See the SkillsCast (Film, slides, code) at:
skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/what-are-you-doing-with...
This is one of the rides we took. It was fast, bumpy, and short- but pretty good for a local fair. Loops are always an adrenaline rush.
Perth Royal Show 2008. Claremont Showgrounds, Western Australia.
And because the first photos were so much fun, I took another series of pictures with maverick wearing knitted Python from the 12 gowns of Christmas by Superfrock :)