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Having a nice snooze in the sun.
"Coastal carpet pythons are aptly named, as they occur along most of the east coast of Australia. They are very commonly kept in captivity and have a variety of appearances and sizes.
The Carpet Python diet consists mainly of small mammals, bats, birds and lizards. Carpet Pythons are not venomous. Instead, they kill their prey by constricting (squeezing) it until it suffocates."
So here I am, in generic warehouse #1, trying to save Lana. But of course, making things difficult, is Princess Python, and her Femme Fatales, which includes at least two others. For simplicities sake, I'll call the one with the tail Scorpia, and the other one Beetle, as their look reminds me of a Beetle. Suddenly, 4 others emerge from the shadows. Two of them I recognize as being Screwball, and Skein, both of which I've fought before. Thought Screwball went to prison though.. Anyways, one of the ones I don't recognize, is dressed in red and black, with the other having black feathered wings. Seven versus one, I'm really not liking these odds. The one in black and red steps forward, and starts speaking.
"Why is she tied up? She's not our prisoner.. Untie her now!" Her voice cuts through the emptiness of the room as she speaks. Scorpia and Bombshell do as their told and untie Lana.
"Mom? What's going on? Why are you with these people? Are you okay?" Wait a minute, that's Lana's mother? The one that's supposedly captured.
Lana's Mother: "I'm fine Lana. Me being captured was all a ruse. You wouldn't have done jobs as Bombshell without some sort of incentive."
Lana: "WHAT? You're telling me after all this time, that you planned all of this?! For what? Me to be your errand girl. You don't even care!"
Bomb-shell: "But I do care sweetie.. You know how our powers work better with us on the same side! I brought you here now, so you could be part of this. Part of the Femme Fatales! Mother and daughter, working together as the Bombshells! Wreaking havoc on New York!"
Lana: "You sure have a bad way of showing you 'care'. Kidnapping me to join your band of merry freaks. Yeah, no thanks.. I thought you'd changed. But man, was I wrong.. It's time I stop pretending you'll get better. Once a monster, always a monster!" Her voice filled with anger, her eyes start to glow pink. Guess it's time to get ready for the fight of my life. Her mini explosion sends the Screwball, Skein, Lana's mother, and the winged person flying across the room. It doesn't seem to affect her mother all that much, as she gets up from the explosion rather quickly.
Bomb-shell: "You ungrateful little $@#*%. After everything I've done for you, this is what I get in return. You just made the biggest mistake of your life Lana.."
Lana: "Actually, I think it's one of the first right things I've done."
"You're not going to kill her are you?" I ask, hoping that Lana doesn't screw up her future by the choices she makes today.
"Of course not Spidey! I'm better than she is. But you definitely need all the help you can get, and I'm fired up."
"This is going to get me my highest viewership yet!" I hear Screwball scream from the other side of the room.
"Shut up and kill them already!" Bomb-shell yells, pointing at me and Lana.
"So, the Femme Fatales aren't under your control Princess Python? Huh, well I figured given your whole speech about your Femme Fatales killing me that you were the leader of this group. Guess I was wrong!" I say, trying to turn her against Bomb-Shell
"They are! Bomb-Shell is merely my right handed woman who sometimes forgets her place among us. Anyways, it's about time we finished you off for good."
With that, the fight begins, with Beetle, and Scorpia rushing at Lana. Scorpia tries stabbing Lana with her tail, but I shoot a webline at Scorpia's tail, pulling her away from Lana. Lana creates an explosion above Beetle, sending parts of the catwalk hurtling down to the ground. Beetle's able to narrowly dodge it. Princess Python's python slithers towards me, trying to I don't know, bite, or suffocate me. Princess herself stays back, seemingly over reliant on her Femme Fatales. Screwball, Skein, and the bird girl come towards me, with Skein binding me in place with strands of cloth. The bird girl dives down at me, and slashes at me with her talons, before flying away. Screwball can't stop herself from smiling, as she skates around on her skateboard. I attach my webline to the wall, acting as a tripwire of sorts. As she's too focused on getting good angles for her livestream, she doesn't notice it. Once she hits the webline, she gets sent right into the ground.
"To me Raptor! Fly me up!" I hear Skein say to the bird girl.
Raptor eh? Good to know.. Raptor proceeds to pick up Skein, and flies up high, dropping her. Skein manipulates her cloth into multiple drills, that come spinning towards me as she falls. Lana explodes the cloth binding me, but as I'm still within range, so the impact pushes me back a little. I take that opportunity to get out-of-the-way of Skein's drills.
"Sorry P-- I mean Spidey.. I reduced the damage as much I could, but still kept it powerful enough to destroy the strands of cloth." How does Lana know? I feel around my head, and realize that the bird girl actually took my mask off with her flurry of attacks. I quickly pull my mask to me, and put it on before they notice my exposed face.
"Ah, it's no big deal! Tis but a scratch!"
"Did you really just quote that now?" Lana asks, almost as if she's surprised, while she dodges Scorpia's tail. I slingshot myself towards Scorpia, and when I release, it's only a matter of moments before my legs collide with Scorpia's stomach, sending her across the room, crashing into some wooden crates. Beetle starts shooting me with her energy beams, which I can only assume are built into the suit. I toss some crates in the way of her blasts, while dodging the rest of them. My spider sense goes off, but it's too late as an explosion goes off behind me, in which I go crashing into Lana.
"Sorry, I tend to quote movies when I get nervous." I say while panting, trying to catch my breath as I get up off the ground. I extend my hand to help her up, and she takes it.
"Right.. By the way, you're explaining yourself when this is all over.." Lana whispers in my ear, before running off to fight Raptor. Suddenly, I hear a loud crashing noise. I don't notice anything until I look over at the window up near the catwalk. The glass is all but gone from the window, and the figure standing there is someone I recognize. It's Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, who's bad luck can really even the odds in our favour.. Wow, talk about good timing.
"Hey Spider, need a hand?" She asks after leaping her way down to end up beside me.
"The more the merrier I say! Let's do this!" I reply, excited that I have friends that I can rely on. Three vs Six, (since Screwball is essentially down for the count. Even if she wasn't, let's just say she's not really one I'm worried about). The odds are growing by the minute!
This reticulated python lives at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Park in Norfolk.
Individuals of this species have proved to be indisputably the longest snake in the world. Their length ranges from 5ft to 21ft 4in. (1.5 to 6.5 m) with a weight of between 2lb. 3 oz. to 165 lb. 6 oz. (1 to 75 kg)
The snakes complex geometric pattern is made up of irregular diamond shapes in olive green, brown, white, and gold, with a black outline. The back typically has a series of irregular diamond shapes flanked by smaller markings with light centres. In the snakes wide geographic range, much variation of size, colour, and markings commonly occurs. The pattern is called disruptive colouration and in a shadowy jungle environment amid fallen leaves and debris, it allows them to virtually disappear, protecting them from predators and helping them to catch their prey.
Reticulated pythons are solitary creatures and are active throughout the night. They are found in South and Southeast Asia. It inhabits rainforests, woodlands, and nearby grasslands and may venture into agricultural land or near human habitation. It is also associated with rivers and is found in areas with nearby streams and lakes. They are a slow moving snakes but are excellent swimmers, it has even been reported far out at sea and has consequently has colonized many islands within its range
As with all pythons, the reticulated python is an ambush predator, usually waiting until prey wanders within strike range before seizing it in its coils and killing by constriction. Its natural diet includes mammals and occasionally birds. Small snakes up to 10 to 13 ft. (3 to 3.9 m) long eat mainly small mammals such as rats, other rodents, mouse-eared bats, and treeshrews, whereas larger individuals take prey such as small Indian civet and bearcats, primates, pigs, and deer weighing more than 135 lb. (61.25 kg). Adult humans have been killed and eaten by this snake. As a rule, the reticulated python seems able to swallow prey up to one-quarter its own length and up to its own weight.
Adult females lay between 15 and 80 eggs per clutch. At an optimum incubation temperature of 31–32 °C (88–90 °F), the eggs take an average of 88 days to hatch.[ The hatchlings are at least 2 ft. (61 cm) in length and are independent at birth. The young pythons can expect to live for about 23 years.
King cobras and crocodiles prey on reticulated pythons. Eggs and juvenile pythons are vulnerable to predators such as hawks, eagles, herons, and small mammals. The python is still persecuted by man for it's skin, for use in traditional medicine, for meat and for sale as pets. Few snakes live long enough to reach their maximum potential size.
According to IUCN, the reticulated python is locally common and widespread throughout its range but no overall population estimate is available. Currently, this species is classified as 'Least Concern' on the IUCN Red List
my selection of photos of the beautiful Python Pool, tucked away in the Chichester Ranges, Pilbara, West Australia (taken soon after sunrise). The perfect reflection in the small pool of the two huge rock walls was stunning, creating quite an imposing and timeless image.
This python was sunning itself up high in a tree at "The Polish Place" Mount Tamborine. I thought snakes hibernated in winter? photo was taken on our shortest day of the year.
I just recently got this at the secondhand shop in Bathurst for $2 It's the complete set of the Monty Python movies.
And Now Something completely different.
The Holy Grail
Life Of Brian
The Meaning Of Life.
Which is your favourite Monty Python Movie? Mine is The Meaning of Life
A typical night on the hunt for Florida's invasive pythons.
This night drone photograph was taken as a hobbyist. Maintained line of sight and was taken at 30 feet(below tree line)
This beautiful exhibit has been on display at the San Diego Zoo for many years. I've been so impressed by the beauty of this snake skeleton, that years ago, after I killed a rattlesnake in my driveway, I put the body in my cactus garden so that the ants and beetles could strip it down to a skeleton. My brilliant plan failed because the coyotes came the same night, and ripped the carcass to pieces and ate most of the snake. Oh, well.
More of my animal pictures can be seen at my San Diego Zoo set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157621078764843/...
A large female Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) in the 10-11 foot range captured during a night survey in Everglades National Park. A second individual just a little further down the road while this snake was being captured.
A Woma Python from central Australia. This beautiful python from the central sandy desert of Australia is unfortunately an endangered species.
Went for a walk in the rainforest with my wife yesterday and came uopn this nice sized Diamond Python coiling up in the sun.
Captive wild juvenile python about 2ft in length
The reptile was released unharmed back to the wild at the nature reserve (relocation) soon after the pics were taken.
Combination of 2 images to achieve sufficient dof at its eyes.
Python 03/11/2020 14h22
Amanda wearing a mask to protect herself and others in line of Python.
Python
FACTS & FIGURES
Opening date: April 12, 1981 (re-opened after renovation March 31, 2018)
Type / model: steel double-loop Corkscrew roller coaster
Manufacturer: Vekoma
Lift/launch system: chain lift
Height: 29.00 m
Drop: 22 m
Length: 750.00 m
Speed: 75 km/h
Inversions: 4
Duration: 120 seconds
Capacity: 1400 riders per hour
G-force: 0 - 3.5
Trains: 2 trains with 7 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 28 riders per train.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Python (Efteling) ]
Found at Marcoola Beach in Sunshine Coast. Queensland, Australia.
Found in grass in bush adjacent to beach.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ.
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Fom western Queensland.
A large and calm snake that was found cruising on the side of the road, a pleasure to see!
Python bivittatus
A gorgeous adult found crossing a forest road on a cool November night amid a flooded pine forest in south Florida. Pythons usually prefer freshwater marsh, but can be found in virtually any habitat in the Everglades. This is the lightest colored python I've seen, it was absolutely gorgeous.
The slide was never going to be the most popular ride at the funfair but on a cold damp night stuck at the end of all the other rides no matter how brightly lit is was it still looked lost
One of the many highlights from my trip to Australia over Christmas were the various reptiles we saw. Aside from the small lizards and monitors, we saw 3 species of snake as well: Carpet Python, Tree Snake and Red-bellied Black.
We spotted this huge Carpet Python after hearing a branch snap while walking along a creek. It must have been about 2 metres long and wasn't bothered by us photographing it.
I will be uploading some more photos from my trip over the coming days and weeks so make sure you check back to see them!
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