Clean up in isle 2 python spew

[Hall]

5.7-meter python breaks into Australian charity | TODAYonline (http://www.todayonline.com/world/australia/57-meter-python-breaks-australian-charity)
Saw this on the news this morning. Would come under the list of thing that make you go hmmmm .
Cheers

[Mudnut]

5.7-meter python breaks into Australian charity | TODAYonline (http://www.todayonline.com/world/australia/57-meter-python-breaks-australian-charity)
Saw this on the news this morning. Would come under the list of thing that make you go hmmmm .
Cheers

You have to admit that there is something special about living in FNQ!:D

[bob10]

It was reported the woman involved is Tommy Emmanuel's sister, and used to catch pythons with Tommy & her other brother [ can't remember his name, getting old sucks :)] I can imagine her chasing the snake around the shop, with Tommy playing in the background [ I have to get out more ] Bob

Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie - YouTube (http://youtu.be/6lbvSBNLLoo)

[Reads90]

I was in Ingham in the shop next door when that was all going on. They all so relaxed about it.

Now in Mackay flying back to Brissy tonight

[Redback]

It was reported the woman involved is Tommy Emmanuel's sister, and used to catch pythons with Tommy & her other brother [ can't remember his name, getting old sucks :)] I can imagine her chasing the snake around the shop, with Tommy playing in the background [ I have to get out more ] Bob

Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie - YouTube (http://youtu.be/6lbvSBNLLoo)

Phil;)

[Chucaro]

Even if both are of the same lengths the one captured in USA looks bigger.
Giant 5.7 metre python killed, sets new record (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/giant-57-metre-python-killed-sets-new-record-20130521-2jy38.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/1099.jpg

[bob10]

Even if both are of the same lengths the one captured in USA looks bigger.
Giant 5.7 metre python killed, sets new record (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/giant-57-metre-python-killed-sets-new-record-20130521-2jy38.html)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/07/1099.jpg

That one has not long had a feed, I reckon. The Nth Qld one would have been sleeping in the roof, & decided to look for a feed, & fell thru the ceiling. They grow a lot bigger up there, Bob
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http://www.frw.org.au/snakes/ScrubPython.jpg Scrub Python / Amethystine Python, Morelia amethystina, Egg laying.
Not potentially dangerous, but ready biter. Due to size, could be harmful to small children.
I have come across this python only twice in eight years. Some herpetologists believe they are not in this area, but I know for a fact they are. To the untrained eye they look like a giant Carpet Python, To the enthusiast they are unmistakable, with large square like plates (scales) on top of their head, where as Carpet Pythons have small scales on the surface of their head.
The Scrub Python is found in north eastern Queensland and the islands of Torres Strait and New Guinea. Average length 3.5 to 5 metres. However, in 1948, halfway across the base of Cape York Peninsula in high country, a Scrub Python was shot that was said to have measured more than 8.5 metres long.
In 1970 Eric Worrell recorded a specimen that was 8.5 metres long from Greenhill, near Cairns! Some people may be sceptical about the existence of 8.5 metre scrub pythons, but I have no doubt that Eric Worrel's records would be accurate as he was a pioneer of snake capture and venom research in this country.
We have so much thick and untamed bush in Australia it would not surprise me if one day even larger specimens are found.
This species feeds on many different large vertibrates such as fowls, fruit bats and large specimens have been known to consume fully grown wallabies!

[Cobber]

8.5 metres :eek::eek::eek:

I don't fancy running across something like a python that big in a shop, at home, under the car, anywhere really! Still, I'm used to keeping an eye out for other snakes, so depending on size, a python may well initially blend in to these eyes ... at least until it moved

[WingsOfToa]

This is one of ours. He's about 11 now, but maybe 7 in the photos. Definately not the longest we have, but probably the largest girth. Very sociable animal and proud to have him in our family of 19. http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af202/HunterQLD/P1050730.jpg

[Chucaro]

What a beautiful skin, I would love to have one of those in my back yard to control the local cats.

[scarry]

What a beautiful skin, I would love to have one of those in my back yard to control the local cats.

The dogs at our place keep the cats away,but i need one to catch the brush turkeys......Keep digging up the garden.:mad:

They scramble up the nearest tree and the dogs can't get them:(

When i was a kid my father had a couple of childrens pythons,they are fairly small.Friends of ours had a death adder in a cage for many years.:eek:

[Chucaro]

Brush turkeys are an awesome landscaping machine, live nature to do the work and just protect the veggie patch with wire net :D

[zulu Delta 534]

Back in my younger years I had a couple of (in hindsight at least) hilarious encounters with pythons, and both at Katherine in the NT.
One day when all the tourists were engaged listening to the spiel from one of the Gorge tour guides prior to departing on a cruise up the Katherine Gorge on a tourist boat, I took advantage of the rare free time to grease the coach, so I put on my overalls, grabbed the grease gun and began to crawl under the rear of the coach.
Some movement to my right caught my eye, and I discovered a python coming in from the other side of the coach. We both saw each other at about the same time and both exited at a great rate of knots in opposite directions away from each other. The only real problem was that I had parked fairly close to the side of the river bank (which was about 10 foot high where I was) and in his hurry to escape, the python shot out over the bank and landed in an empty tourist boat moored right alongside my passengers' boat. The screams and shrieks could possibly be heard in Darwin!

That same python, Percy, was a local in the area and known well by all the staff and regulars to the camp-site. Everyone knew where he slept, when he had had a feed and generally kept a fascinated watchful and interested eye on his whereabouts.
In the same camp-site area there was one remaining small (about 3' at the time) Johnstone River crocodile, Charlie, remaining from a batch of about 6 that were hatched nearby, and also watched with interest each day by the locals. Unfortunately Charlie the croc must have been sun baking by the side of the river, fairly sleepy and comfortable just lying, soaking up the sun without a care in the world at just the wrong time.
Percy only ate about once or twice a month and when he did it took a couple of days for the abdominal acids to react to and consume his meal and for the swollen abdomen to resume its normal size.
Charlie had obviously undertaken his lazy sun baking episode on one of those days when Percy was starving hungry and lo and behold Percy was discovered that morning with a half swallowed Charlie hanging out of his mouth, tail swinging wildly from side to side.
Percy persevered and eventually won the day and didn't need another feed for another fortnight. In hindsight we decided that that was probably what had happened to Charlie's brothers and sisters before him.
Regards
Glen

[Chucaro]

Thank you for sharing it with us :)
I just wonder how big will be the python poo but then again he may not waste too much........

[WingsOfToa]

They don't waste too much Chucaro. All that is expelled is usually hair. There are no bones left. Perfect body disposal units. And some uric acid about the size of golf balls, (think of that white stuff in bird poo and that is uric acid).

In the case of the photo of my snake (his name is Fluffy), if you imagine the biggest dump youve ever had, then that is about the same size as Fluffys poos.

Ive got many stories, but this is one that sticks in my mind at the moment. Back home in NQ I get a callout from a guy telling me there is a Taipan under his dashboard (yeah ok I think, everybody sees a taipan and theyre all six foot long). But since I can't see it, I need to play it safe as a mistake can cause me a trip to the hospital or maybe a permant trip somewhere else. So I don't really want to stick my head under his dash incase it's my last relocation. So I start pulling his dash apart whilst he is looking and explain, that if I do break something, then im not responsible, yeah ok he says panicked. So I spend around 2hrs pulling as muchstuff as I can so I can see ( note: I don't charge for relocations). When I can finally see the car seems to be reptilian free he is relieved and then tells me that he is in a hurry and how long will it be before I put his car back in order. If he was nice about it, I may have done it for him, but I did my job, didn't charge him a brass razoo and am not the local mechanic there was only two in town anyway. So I went home and drank a beer instead, leaving this guy Infuriated. Anyone think I was wrong?

[V8Ian]

Couldn't you have smoked it out?

[WingsOfToa]

Thats actually a pretty good idea V8lan! If I had a smoke machine it would be worth a try.

But you'd still need to look underneath to check.

I have a large mirror now on a stick, but it's still not thorough as it is really dark in there. I have thought about getting one of those eel things with a camera on the end, but the jobs are few and far between to justify that expense. I do it for the respect and love of the animals, so I make nothing from it except good karma.

[V8Ian]

Make friends with a bee keeper. ;)

[Chucaro]

Escaped python strangles two children sleeping above Canada pet shop (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-06/children-strangled-after-python-escapes-from-pet-shop/4867146)

The two boys, aged five and seven, were found strangled to death in the flat above the shop, which specialises in exotic animals.

[Roverlord off road spares]

1 saw a glimpse of a news edition, A python escaped from a pet shop in USA I think it was and killed 2 little boys ( Twins?)

[Chucaro]

1 saw a glimpse of a news edition, A python escaped from a pet shop in USA I think it was and killed 2 little boys ( Twins?)
No, one 5 and the other 7 years old :(

[kenl]

Why would a python kill something, two boys, that it was not intending to eat? I just don't get that, are they vengeful?

[Chucaro]

Why would a python kill something, two boys, that it was not intending to eat? I just don't get that, are they vengeful?

It is common for a python to kill an animal and then to left it because it is to big swallow.