Two #pythons have been filmed wrestling on an #Australian #beach as a beachgoer casually walked behind them. The two reptiles were filmed fighting on Mudjimba Beach in #Queensland #sunshineCoast

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/17/watch-two-snakes-fight-as-qld-beachgoer-casually-strolls-along/

interesting

It may not be possible to eradicate #Florida’s tens of thousands of Burmese #pythons (thanks, stupid people!). But the local wildlife is biting back—& humans wielding new tech can help

#InvasiveSpecies https://www.wired.com/story/floridas-war-with-invasive-pythons-has-a-new-twist/

@javahippie
Du hattest ein #Go für #Java und musstest mit #Pascal zusammen die #Pythons fangen. Da hattest du ganz weiche #flutter Knie

#US snake hunters fight #pythons big enough to devour gators

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66206671

Owning animals continues to fascinate me.

I've been a python owner now for maybe just over 6 months. Both my serpents shed nice and regular, and I usually catch the signs within the fortnight. But I've never actually seen the process. Usually, in the morning, there's a sparkly snake and a lovely shed waiting for me to remove. Just now, Armie, my #StimsonsPython gave me a viewing, which I had no sign off! I totally missed it, only just the last few days thinking maybe he was going to and I'd missed the key indicator. Their eyes stop sparkling and go an opache, milky blue colour as secretion is released from the skin under the dead skin to facilitate the shed. Took him only a few minutes. So quick! Very smooth and easy, the shed itself is perfectly intact.

Seems like nothing, but after such a short time, I feel encouraged in terms of how I'm doing as a reptile owner. It shows me he is healthy and that he has everything he needs in his environment. Trouble with simple, regular things like shedding is one of the few times you get an idea that something is wrong, since reptiles don't emote very much, and are remarkably robust in many ways.

And now I've seen a snake shed in real life! Which is fucking cool.

#Snakes #ReptileHusbandry #AustralianReptiles #Antaresia #Pythons

Having a snake draped over your shoulders using your throat as an anchor is sort of how I imagine a Force chokehold feeling. At least at the beginning.

#TheForce #StarWars #Pythons #ReptileHandling

Will jemand was Gutes tun und 5000,- dafür bekommen? Dann schaut mal im Bekanntenkreis, wer neun Schlagen „vermisst“.
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RT @TAG24M
Der Jäger, der die #Pythons fand, vermutet, dass sie "aus dem Auto rausgeschmissen worden sind". #Bayern https://www.tag24.de/muenchen/crime/dem-grausamem-kaeltetod-ueberlassen-neun-schlagen-bei-minusgraden-ausgesetzt-2783014
https://twitter.com/TAG24M/status/1638437867968946177

IOB is thrilled!
Feb's issue of @sciam ,
Featured Bruce Jayne, co author of IOB's

Scaling Relationships of Maximal Gape in Two Species of Large #Invasive #Snakes, Brown Treesnakes & Burmese #Pythons,& Implications for Maximal Prey Size

https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac033

… (@OUPAcademic )
#snake #biology #science #scientist #ecology #morphology #research

So, just if anyone happens on this post & is interested. Generally, most commonly, in Sydney, you get mostly Top End tropicals or desert dwellers in the hobby. Besides your Eastern Blueys (of which my Lola is one). So heating is the main concern. My other four are all of the first kind; two Central beardies, diurnal, who will cope well into 40s (but I honestly do not believe that is with pleasure) & two Antaresia, who are nocturnal, they've evolved to avoid the heat of central & Top End Oz.

During the three consecutive La Niña events it was the humidity that started to become an issue for me & I first began to research this. But the temperature now these events have passed is going to be of increasing concern. Even when there is the smallest heat source or none, enclosure temps are all in the 30s in this room. I came across this video from Coop's Reptiles: https://youtu.be/HBp0bxn-ldI

Just another thing on my list of things I want to do in my constantly upgrading enclosures.

#AustralianReptiles #Antaresia #PagonaVitticeps #Dragons #Pythons #Enclosures

Python invasion has exploded out of the Everglades and into nearly all of southern Florida, new map shows – Sun Sentinel
#florida #invasivespecies #pythons
#news
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/environment/fl-ne-usgs-python-assessment-20230304-r6l6v73l4beprazqjlgysgukyy-story.html

Use of #GPS trackers to trace & trap #pythons in #Florida.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-florida-researchers-gps-fitted-possums-raccoons-capture-invasive-pythons-reports

@jorsh I care for several large Australian #pythons including Ziggy Stardust who is about 9kg and 2.5 metres long. He's not #affectionate like a dog but occasionally he likes to play outside in the sun which is always fun.

This morning I had a visit from a young #sand #monitor.

The Everglades are a remote outpost of the Neotropics, that most Neotropical fauna did not reach. Seems to me its an atypical situation, where many introduced species just 'fit in' with limited impacts. Thus the Burmese python occupies now, a vacant guild. One wonders if future pythons in North America, will begin to converge upon the anacondas, Eunectes, their closest South American analogs, in swamp living adaptations, such as dorsal repositioning of the eyes.

#pythons #everglades #specbio

My little python Ares, is in recovery mode. She's been in shed for over a week & today was the day. When I checked on her she was halfway done & had torn the shed horizontally sporting a clean back but couldn't get a grab on the half on her belly. I came back early this evening to find she had taken matters outside her wood hide (where she'd done most of the work) to her rocks & the water bowl. She did a stellar job.

Her house is nice & clean now, & she is curled up inside her hide again, sporting sparkling fresh skin.

I continue to be amazed at the kind of event skin shedding is for the pythons. It's uncomfortable; they stop eating mostly, probably because it's uncomfortable, & when it's time to go, it's all off at once, & the movement can result in throwing up; they go mostly blind for a period; & they can work for hours to get it all off.

Now, you might think, "oh wow, reptiles shedding, how interesting..." sarcastically to yourself, but actually, yes, it really is! These tiny little beings that fit in my hand have all these amazing ways of being with all new irritants & struggles & solutions that we don't know. & I have a lot of respect for them. I do my best to make things very comfortable & easy for them, but you can only set up conditions as well as you can, & let them do the work.

#AntaresiaChildrini #ChildrensPython #AustralianPythons #AustralianReptiles #Reptiles #Pythons #Snakes #SnakeSkin #SnakeShedding #ReptileHusbandry

https://www.instagram.com/tv/ClQ0TJkBZis/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#Studs

Season 1 Episode 12 "The Reunion"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake

#DavidCharvet #Studs #RaceNelson

Season 3 Episode 1 "River of No Return: part 1"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake

#MichaelNewman

Season 1 Episode 5 "Message in a Bottle"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake

#PeterPhelps #ChristineElise

Season 1 Episode 8 "Rookie School"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake

#DavidCharvet #Studs #RaceNelson

Season 3 Episode 1 "River of No Return: part 1"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake

#Studs

Season 1 Episode 12 "The Reunion"

#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BaywatchHunks #Tools #Junk #WaterSafety #Speedo #Pythons #Package #BaywatchBeefcake