Thread: Clean up in isle 2 python spew

Originally Posted by Hall

5.7-meter python breaks into Australian charity | TODAYonline
Saw this on the news this morning. Would come under the list of thing that make you go hmmmm .
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You have to admit that there is something special about living in FNQ!

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

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

Originally Posted by 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

Phil

Even if both are of the same lengths the one captured in USA looks bigger.
Giant 5.7 metre python killed, sets new record

Originally Posted by 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

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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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!

8.5 metres

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

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/...D/P1050730.jpg