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I just love these snakes.
It's only by manipulating adults that you can really appreciate how powerful these animals are. The whole body is just pure muscle. They are such impressive animals.
In the vodoun religion, these guys are sacred animals. The pythons you can see in the temple are wild, they are not fed by anyone. When people come across a python, they bring it to the temple, which usually holds about 40 pythons. It is a cool and dark place where pythons like to stay during the day. When night falls, they come out, looking for prey.
Python regius, ball python, python royal.
Temple des Pythons, Ouidah, Benin.
This is one of my snakes. She was adopted from a friend several years ago. She is very tame, has never tried to bite and I have let many people hold her in public. Shes about 4 feet long.
A photograph of a photograph - original by me, recapture by darling.clandestine... model: Evonne Acevedo Johnson
Of course, this is a Nikon 35mm with Kodak Film... no digital available back in my day... way back in ye ol' 1996.
Large View. My adult son is interested in many types of animals. This is his Ball Python named Mark. I photographed it when I was at his place last summer.
June 11, 2009.
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