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The Borneo Short-tail Python is endangered due to poaching for its attractive skin. This one is safe at the Serpentarium in Mendoza, Argentina.
In context at www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/reptiles/index.html
A juvenile Reticulated Python which a farmer had found in his house. He caught it and put it into this cage to wait until a wildlife official could arrive to re-release it into an area where it was less likely to come into conflict with people.
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...
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.
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.
In 1981 Colt introduced the Python Hunter, made about 2000 of them. In 1983 introduced the Python Silhoutte, only info I could find was that they made about 200, maybe 500 of them, I am going to send to Colt for the letter and find out how many were made. The Hunter and the Silhouette were both custom shop guns, came with the Leoplod scopes with the Leopold / Colt emblem on the scope. The serial number on mine indicates that it was made in 1981, but they weren't out even introduced till 1983. I believe from some research that Colt would take blocks of serial numbered guns from a year into the Custom Shop, and sometimes they were not even built till years later. The only difference between them was the scroll marks on the barrels and the case they came in.
Found that they are selling for about $4000, sometimes in less condition as mine with case and so forth.
Trying to find one for sale? Good luck. You MIGHT see a Hunter for sale online OCCASIONALLY.
Scientific Name: Morelia (Chondropython) viridis
Description : Adult tree pythons have variations in colour and pattern. They are bright to emerald green above with the belly a cream to light yellow. They have a complete or broken series of white or yellow scales along the vertebral line. Spots of the same colour may be scattered over the body. The tail tip is a bluish colour.
They have a slender, laterally compressed body. The head is diamond shaped and the head scales are irregular, numerous and finely granular. The pupil is vertical. They have three thermosensory pits (on each side) in the upper lip that are located at the very front of the face (and facing forward). They then have another five in the lower lip that are located beneath the eye and facing more so outward (but are still slanted toward the front of the face).
Juveniles are bright lemon-yellow, gold, red or orange, often with a dark purplish-brown, white striped streak through the eye and a vertebral stripe of the same colour, with short bars of brown extending out from the vertical line. The change from the juvenile to the adult colour may be completed by one year old. Their size ranges from 1.2 - 2.2 metres.
Distribution : Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Aru Islands and in the very north of Australia.
Habitat : Morelia viridis inhabits tropical jungles, bamboo thickets, rain forests, and monsoon forests where vegetation is thick and the climate is very humid (80 - 95% humidity) and warm (28 - 35 ˚C), from sea level up to 2000 metres. It can be found however, also at forest margins and in secondary growth, bushes and shrubs, occasionally even in gardens and hedges that surround buildings. It is primarily an arboreal snake and can be found mostly in trees as high as 30 metres above ground, but occasionally also on ground.
Food : Small mammals, reptiles and birds.
Reproduction and Development : After reaching sexual maturity at two to three years of age they begin to look for sexual partners. If the female meets several males, several matings are possible with different partners. Adults possess a pair of cloacal spurs, one on either side of the vent, larger in males than females. These are the external parts of the vestigial hind limb and pelvic structures.
Copulation occurs when the pelvic spurs are used to anchor the male genital organs to the female cloaca. The male has two intromittant organs, called hemipenes but only one is engaged during mating. After successfully mating the females stop eating and begin looking for nesting sites. These are predominantly hollows situated high in trees, but also include hidden sites that offer protection from enemies and enough humidity.
The size of the clutch depends upon the size and age of the female. The number of eggs deposited can range between 5 to 25 (up to 35) eggs. Like most python species, the green tree python protects and incubates her eggs. The female wraps her body around them and uses muscular shivers as a means of keeping or even increasing her body temperature, thus producing and keeping an incubation temperature of 29.5 ˚C. If the temperature is too high she loosens the body loops. Hatching occurs 45 - 65 days after the eggs are deposited. Since in principle matings, egg depositions and hatchings may happen any time of the year, in this non seasonal snake this means that young can be seen any time of the year. They are about 30 cm long and have very striking colours. Hatchlings from the same clutch may have different colours. They are independent from birth, moving off into the forest on their own. Over the next six to twelve months their colour changes into the typical green. This phenomenon is referred to as ontogenetic colour change.
Adaptations : They are an arboreal snake, the tail being strongly prehensile. Prey is captured by holding onto a branch using the prehensile tail and striking out from an s-shape position. They also entice their food by lying very still on a branch and dangling their bluish tail as a lure. When the prey, curious about the wiggling tail, gets close enough, they strike.
Adults have strong dentition with teeth up to 2 cm. The enlarged front teeth assist in catching and holding prey. The ability to expand its mouth along with the extensile skin allows the snake to ingest prey with a diameter greater than that of its own body. They have a particular way of resting in the branches of trees: they loop a coil or two over the horizontal branches in a saddle position and place their head in the middle.
The heat sensitive pits along the jaw help them notice changes in temperature, with which they are able to detect infra-red heat from warm-blooded animals. Nocturnal green colouring is good camouflage; it is also a helpful tool in minimizing predation, as they tend to blend well with trees and bushes in which they rest during the day. They spend most of their lives in the trees but are not exclusively tree-dwellers. On occasion they hunt on the ground.
Threats to Survival : Forest clearance and over-collection. The largest threat to the species is habitat destruction, particularly in the Indonesian (western) part of New Guinea, which is being logged. They are also under pressure from hunting; for food and for the skin trade.
Status : IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Appendix II
Zoo Diet : Mice, Vitamin E.
Toronto Zoo Website
BotBuilder.co.uk's Serial Servo Board driving two servos (for a robot head) driven by pySerial.
Write-up: blog.aicookbook.com/2010/06/building-a-face-tracking-robo...
At Goldfield Ghost Town, Arizona
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The Woma Python, Aspidites ramsayi, is from Central Australia. It enjoys arid zones and sand plants. Apart from the interesting scale pattern, it is also interesting how this snake kills. Instead of constricting, they press their prey against the walls of their burrow, effectively crushing it. I suppose it's the same principle, but still interesting.
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.
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...
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.