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Benin. West Africa.
Ouidah
In most parts of the world snakes are feared, but in Benin they are revered. Royal pythons are worshiped in Benin, especially in Ouidah. The good news is that royal pythons are not dangerous, but the bad news is that these sacred reptiles are welcome Beninese households where they are fed when the doors of the temple are opened at night. There is no fear when the locals welcome these slithering pythons into their living rooms like an honoured guest.
The Temple of Pythons is a small room of twelve square meters that houses 50 adult royal pythons.
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Reticulated Python
This is supposedly the 'most commonly seen' Python. Urbanisation had driven these (and others) into a rarity, though they can still be found occasionally in heavy residential sites, most are driven underground, into drainages, only the lucky ones are still in the limited nature reserves that we have on this small island.
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
The Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium holds various reptiles and amphibians in the main building, as well as a selection of birds in aviaries outside.
One of the invasive species of snake in Florida, this originates in south and southeast Asia.
Apparently Florida has a problem with Burmese Pythons as owners release them into the wild, as well as escaping following Hurricane Andrew.
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.
A volunteer at the Bucks County Zoo holds an albino python, as my wife, Jan, reaches out to touch it.
while I was mindlessly photographing some ordinary plant, a 2.5m python was gliding across the path right behind me. Too close to the bull ants for me to attempt a more complete shot
Eastern Carpet Python
Shot @ Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, took this photograph standing just 1 feet away from this beautiful sleepy creature.
PYTHON
PYT
PYT bar
DESIGN
Komplot Design, Denmark
APPLICATION
Cafes, restaurants, Internet cafes, receptions
MATERIAL
Form pressed plywood, chrome frame
“The 2 icons of 20th century’s Danish furniture design: the “Valet” chair of Hans Wegner and the “Ant” chair of Arne Jacobsen are staying on the retina….What will happen if we crossbreed them? How will their child look like?” This question KOMPLOT Design /Boris Berlin and Poul Christiansen, Denmark/ asked themselves and related it to often faced situation when visiting a restaurant, we miss a good chair-back on which to hang our jacket without it falling on the floor or being crumpled.
PYTHON is a 21st century chair for cafes and restaurants, Internet cafes as well as for reception-rooms with a chair back that holds your jacket like a coat-hanger without it falling on the floor or beeing crumped
PYTHON’s special construction with enlarged thickness in the curve gives very high strenght to the chair making it suitable for regular usage in public spaces
PYTHON collection includes three chairs - PYTHON, PYT and stackable PYT bar chair. PYT has the same shape and construction but without the high back. It suits very well together with PYTHON and allows you to play with forms and colours in the interior. Both - PYTHON and PYT - are offered also with upholstered seat pad
PYTHON collection is available in different natural wood veneers - birch, beech, maple, cherry, walnut, oak, zebrano, wenge. It comes clear lacquered or in wide range of stained finish as well as covered with matted white or black melamine
PYTHON, PYT and PYT bar is stackable up to 8 pieces
Tested according to DIN EN 1728, DIN EN 13761, DIN 68 878 for contractual use in LGA Qualitest GmbH Furniture Test Institute.
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
View On Black My father breeds and keeps snakes as a hobby, and I was babysitting a batch of 10 eggs while he was vacationing. Of the 10 eggs there came 11 beautiful little pythons like this one!