Voodoo Pythons

03/12/2021

Continuing our posts about things completely unrelated to pythons:

The egg of some sort of large animal, without doubt not a reptile, next to the egg of a much smaller animal, again without doubt not a reptile.

We did put a clutch of pygmy python eggs into the incubator this week, so we could probably do a post of those next to some of our BHP eggs. But we’d prefer to let our python eggs cook undisturbed.

03/10/2021

We’re backing the croc to win this tug of war. Reptile beats cat every time.

22/08/2021

Again, not anything to do with pythons.

Vision impaired ✔️
Attacks people that come into their space ✔️
Just wants s*xy times ✔️

If you answered yes to all three, congrats! You're actually a male olive sea snake. 🐍

We released a paper alongside Macquarie University and JCU: James Cook University, Australia that found olive sea snakes just want s*x when they 'attack' reef divers. The snakes think that the divers are female sea snakes.

They do so because they're visually impaired and desperate. 👓

Once they approach a diver, they tongue-flick them to assess them. They then go away after they realise it's not a female they can mate with. 🥀

📝: ABC News
📸: Craig Howe, taken via iNaturalist

03/06/2021

24/12/2020

No stamina.

You’ll never see an Aussie python fall out of a tree just coz it’s a bit chilly.

Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve iguanas falling from trees.

18/03/2019

Not sure what’s being eaten here - maybe it’s a tree kangaroo - but yeah, that rat probably isn’t too large for your snake. It’s amazing what they can get down.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvHqKdKlYHW/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1lxw5cglrngs

19/02/2019

This relates to lizards (yawn) not pythons (🤗), but it’s still pretty cool to think about.

South American lizards are breaking an evolutionary 'golden rule' By Erin Handley Thu 14 Feb 2019, 4:07 PM AEDT Photo Researchers have found evidence of a possible backflip from bearing live young to egg-laying in South American lizards — an evolutionary transition believed to be extremely rare. S...

26/01/2019

22/01/2019

Wow!

03/01/2019

Looks very similar to our Pygmies. Very very similar.