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Just added to the collection, 2 two-headed carpet pythons! These snakes are both from the same clutch of eggs.
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Zsa Zsa is a beautiful, young short bill corella we were asked to look after and adopt if we so wished. She was good natured and bonded with us immediately but unfortunately she was a very noisy bird and demanded a lot of attention, something we could not give her. Sadly, after a month or so we had to give her back but we know she went to a good family.
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.
This skin belongs to what is perhaps the most beautiful wild carpet python I have ever seen. It looks so different from other eastern M. spilota I have seen previously, which have lacked such distinct banding and orange colouration.
Carpet pythons (Morelia spilota) are a large and well known snake that occurs across various habitats throughout Australia and New Guinea. This animal was found on the road in Iron Range National Park, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Read the story behind the photo: Cape York Peninsula, QLD - 2010
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 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.
Little babies were popping out of the possum's pouch and everything... from here on in we'll refer to them as hors d'oeuvres :D
Photos taken by my mate Matt on his camera phone.
Luckily he called me and I told him to make sure the group of people watching (and almost vomiting) DID NOT INTERFERE with what was happening. Snakes need to eat too!
My brother's snake - 'Snake' - is staying over for a few days so that i can get some nice photos of her
She moved too fast and got her nose chopped off! but i like it regardless
No wonder the cat jumps anytime he sees a piece of string or anything that even closely resembles a snake. I would be nervous too.
Irwin the Centralian Carpet Python had a little escape, he was located by the Rachgirl outside, in a tree, with a stomach full of what I think is probably a bird - his first ever live feed!
Getting to grips with a carpet python (Morelia spilota).
The City of Playford's Birds, Bats and Biodiversity community event in the Burgate Reserve, Elizabeth Grove, South Australia, Saturday 12th of April, 2014.
This is close to, but still not, the really bright, clear yellow colour of this specimen. I have a 2009 female that may well eclipse this one.
North-western Carpet Python (Morelia spilota variegata) is a non-venomous python subspecies found in New Guinea and Australia. Also known as the Darwin Carpet Python
(Morelia s. spilota/mcdowelli hybrid)
After inspecting its catch for some time, presumably determining the best end to take it on from, it began to swallow the Bush Rat headfirst. It soon consumed the entire rat and went in and curled up underneath our fireplace to rest.
(Millbank, NSW)
Two Nikon SB-900's in 43" Westcott Apollo Orb camera left . PCB Einstein in a 36" Octobox camera right. Strobes powered by Mini TT1 + AC3 on camera, Flex TT5 on Speedlights and Power MC2 on the PCB Einstein.
Diamond Python, Morelia spilota, about 2 metres long. Nymboida National Park, NSW, Australia, August 2014.
Saw this nice size python while checking the usual haunts of the quails. He was laying there like this soaking up the sun and no doubt waiting for any wandering quail to cross his path.
The quoll is a carnivorous marsupial native to mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. It is primarily nocturnal and spends most of the day in its den (Wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll)
taken late last year (before i died my hair for the formal).
That's my Snake, unable to sit stil as usual.
...the frame isn't straight..will have to reframe it...
Nikon SB-28 gelled below camera. PCB Einstein in a 86" White PLM w/ Spill Kill camera left. Strobes powered by Mini TT1 + AC3 on camera, Flex TT5 on Speedlights and Power MC2 on the PCB Einstein.
Roadkill Carpet Python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli) around 1.5m long, found somewhere north of Toowoomba, QLD.
This wild diamond python was living under our house in Australia. This photo was taken directly under the kitchen window.
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Diese wilde Diamant-Python lebt unter unserem Haus in Australien. Dieses Photo wurde direkt unter dem Küchenfenster aufgenommen.
Irwin the Centralian Carpet Python had a little escape, he was located by the Rachgirl outside, in a tree, with a stomach full of what I think is probably a bird - his first ever live feed!