#Python bivittatus

[thlpp]

If Silly Sleeping was an Olympic discipline, Sunny would win the gold.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Researchers compared reticulated pythons (Malayopython reticulatus), pictured, and Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) farmed at commercial python farms in Thailand and Vietnam.

Image credit: Shutterstock

[purplelordstudios]

He wants to talk to you about your cars extended warranty

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Snakes are well known for their long, flexible bodies-- for which they need lots of bones! In fact, snakes have the most bones of any animal; some species may have over 1,800 bones! A lot of these are vertebrae, of which an individual may have between 100-600 depending on the species.

(Image: A burmese python (Python bivittatus) skeleton (right) reconstructed by researcher Becky Reichart (left), photo by Stephanie Livingston)

As a bonus, check out this video of the above skeleton's re-articulation:

[walterjenkel]

©photography by Walter Jenkel 2023 Granite Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) WALTER JENKEL @WalterJenkel walter_jenkel

[deepestbluesky]

hello it is time for a VERY niche post. join me for... SHL characters as SNAKES!!!!! i tried to find snakes that naturally occur in china or near china, as a terrible added parameter—there's a TON of snakes in china, but i just don't know many so it's terrible bc it added a lot of work for me lol. but i've learned things! and found some cool snakes! so! let's go. pictures of snakes ahead, if that's not your thing, feel free to peace out.

Wen Kexing - Sinomicrurus macclellandi a coral snake! just a nice boy you know? just a nice, extremely venemous boy with dramatic red coloration. shamless plug for my fic where wkx turns into This Snake.

Zhou Zishu - Bungarus multicinctus look at this lovely unassuming snake. got some goth-y drama but overall not too bad, right? one of the most venomous land snakes in the world 😌 (also. he and wkx match but like in a complimentary way.)

Zhang Chengling - Pareas margaritophorus the first thing wikipedia says about this snake is that it is small and harmless. for the first time so far, i am not trying to mislead you. just a little snek boi!!!!!! cute!!!!!! I Want To Hold And Protect Him

Gu Xiang - Fowlea piscator look i'm gonna be honest. there are not a lot of snakes that are even REMOTELY purple but this one has a little purple whip tongue! also, not venemous but (if it's anything like water snakes in the US) kind of an asshole. apparently pretends to be a cobra. look at her go.

Cao Weining - Coelognathus radiatus this snake has no thoughts in its head. look at it. i don't mean as a species i mean This One. That's cwn. just sitting there doing a blep. no venom, apparently a defensive sort of dude. cool colors tho!

Luo Fumeng - Calliophis bivirgatus a different kind of coral snake! i've gone a bit further outside of china for this one but LOOK at how gorgeous it is. how could i not let lfm be this glamorous. also i like the idea that she's a different genus of snake than wkx but still a (venemous) coral snake.

Liu Qianqiao - Elaphe taeniura gonna be honest here, the common name of this snake in english is the beauty snake (or ratsnake), so i didn't think too much farther. there's a ton of different color morphs of it. look at it, the elegance! she's beauty she's grace she'll constrict you (if you are a small mammal)!

Xie Wang - Bungarus fasciatus this is a different krait! zzs has MANY bands, xw just has bands. a little brighter colored and more extra than zzs, sliiiightly less deadly, still can very definitely kill you. LOOK at that warning coloration. if i was to pick two characters to DEFINITELY have warning coloration, it WOULD be wkx and xw.

Du Pusa - Euprepiophis mandarinus this is NOT my best work, but i just thought this snake was really pretty and so i was determined to include it somehow. hence: dps. they are ~secretive~ apparently. also. again. Look At It

Ye Baiyi - Python bivittatus BIG BOY!!!! ALMOST THE BIGGEST BOY!!!!! does occur in white color morphs in captivity (and like, i guess presumably in the wild? at one point? but i have to imagine that's like. not so much a thing anymore.) also, did i pick the picture that looks the most like a cryptid? of course i did, it's yby. he doesn't want his picture taken. he doesn't want you to know he exists even. leave him alone. where he belongs in his natural habitat.

Han Ying - Lycodon septentrionalis a shiny pretty boy. a shiny pretty boy who looks very much like a many-banded krait, in fact. however, they're not venemous. hy just looks like zzs. again: LOOK AT THIS GOOD SNEK.

Jing Beiyuan - Ahaetulla prasina several things here. one, this is an elegant but strange boy (i don't think this shows just how weird this guy's nose looks. it's like someone took a snake's nose and used pliers to stretch it out all pointy). two, FASHION!!! look at those pattens!!!!! a striking example. and three, it looks kind of like wu xi's snakeclet

Wu Xi - Naja atra he's a cobra. i think this speaks for itself.

[itsnothingbutluck]

…"Trăn có thể nhịn ăn trong vài tháng mà không mất nhiều khối lượng cơ thể. Điều này khiến chúng trở nên lý tưởng để nuôi trong điều kiện nguồn cung cấp thức ăn và nước uống không được đảm bảo".

Bằng việc nghiên cứu 2 loài trăn phổ biến ở Thái Lan và Việt Nam, có tên khoa học lần lượt là Malayopython reticulatus và Python bivittatus, các nhà nghiên cứu phát hiện rằng tỷ lệ thức ăn tiêu thụ của trăn so với lượng thịt sản xuất ra thấp hơn nhiều so với các loài được nuôi để lấy thịt khác.

Cụ thể, tỷ lệ này ở trăn đạt 1.2, so với 1.5 đối với cá hồi, 2.8 đối với thịt gia cầm, 6.0 đối với thịt lợn và 10.0 đối với thịt bò. Trong đó, tỷ lệ thấp hơn có nghĩa là hiệu quả cao hơn.Nói cách khác nếu nuôi trăn, người chăn nuôi có thể đạt lợi nhuận cao hơn, với một chi phí thấp hơn dành cho số tiền mua thức ăn.

"Việc nhân giống và nuôi trăn trong các cơ sở nuôi nhốt để lấy thịt hoặc kinh doanh là hoàn toàn khả thi về mặt sinh học và kinh tế", các nhà nghiên cứu của dự án cho biết…

[thesecrettimes]

Long-held myth says Hurricane Andrew sparked Florida's Burmese python problem. Is it true?

On Aug. 4, hunters in southern Florida will begin a cull of Burmese pythons as part of an annual competition to try and keep the invasive snakes' population in check. Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are native to southeast Asia, where they slink through thick jungles, grasslands and swamps. But these snakes — which can grow to be more than 18 feet (5.5 meters) long — have also established an invasive population in southern Florida that has decimated local ecosystems, with the snakes devouring prey as large as deer and alligators. Researchers aren't sure exactly how the animals gained a foothold in the state, but one theory is that the invasive snakes got their start in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew destroyed a reptile breeding facility near Miami, setting Burmese pythons loose across the Sunshine State. It is thought Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) began their invasion of Florida in the late 1970s. (Image credit: Rhona Wise/Getty Images) But many experts say this is likely an oversimplification of the pythons' origin story. In 1992, Andrew slammed into the Miami area as a Category 5 storm, quickly becoming one of the most destructive hurricanes in American history. More than 15 feet (4.5 m) of storm surge flooded the coast and over 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain dropped in some areas, with wind gusts of about 167 mph (269 kph). Related: Gruesome video reveals the moment a 5-foot alligator corpse was cut from the gut of a dead python According to The New Yorker, a warehouse filled with reptiles in Homestead, Florida, just south of Miami, was destroyed during the storm — and one official told the magazine that he remembered seeing hundreds of Burmese pythons in that warehouse. When the storm destroyed the building, those pythons could have gotten loose in the swampy environs of southeast Florida. Many wild animals did get loose during Andrew's landfall, and some newspapers reported sightings of large snakes in the storm's aftermath. But individual Burmese pythons have reportedly been spotted in the Everglades since at least 1979, with unconfirmed reports throughout the 1980s, according to a 2023 report. The snakes were not commonly sighted in southern Florida until at least 1995. While that's three years after Andrew, the timing and geography of the python invasion don't fit with the storm theory, scientists say. From 1995 to 2000, 11 pythons were sighted or captured in the southwestern part of Everglades National Park — miles away from the destroyed reptile facility in Homestead. "When the population started to grow initially, in the 1990s, most of it was 20 miles away from that facility," Dan Simberloff, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, told Live Science. It wasn't until after the turn of the millennium that the snakes routinely showed up in the Miami area, near where the warehouse once stood. Based on this geography and the population's growth rates, a 2011 study concluded that the simplest explanation for the Burmese python invasion is that a few individual snakes were released into the southern Everglades sometime before 1985, with the population growing slowly until the 1990s, before skyrocketing upward. Aerial view of Homestead, Florida, after Hurricane Andrew hit.  (Image credit: ClassicStock/GEtty Images) The 2023 report noted that a second, separate introduction of Burmese pythons may have occurred in southwest Florida, closer to Naples. "While some believe Hurricane Andrew in 1992 caused the python problem, Burmese pythons had been detected here prior to that hurricane, as early as 1979. Several introduction events likely occurred in south Florida," a spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told Live Science via email. This doesn't necessarily mean that Hurricane Andrew didn't contribute to the snakes' spread, however — it is possible that some snakes escaped from the pet trade during the storm and joined the feral population, experts said. "If it was a multiple choice question as to how did Burmese pythons get into the south Florida ecosystem and (A) was 'Escaped Pet,' (B) was 'Intentionally Released,' and (C) was 'Meteorological Disturbances' — I would circle (D): 'All of the Above,'" Ian Bartoszek, an environmental scientist with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, told Live Science. Simberloff said that over the past two decades, research has shown that many invasive species that were thought to be a result of a single introduction were actually introduced in their new habitats multiple times. This includes the brown anole (Anolis sagrei), another reptile invasive to Florida. Florida governor Ron DeSantis launching the 2021 Python Challenge, where members of the public hunt the invasive species for cash prizes.  (Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) About 17,000 Burmese pythons were imported to the United States between 1970 and 1995 for the pet trade — and with that many pythons coming in, it's entirely plausible that a few will be released by their owners. "People can get tired of having a huge snake," Simberloff said. Bartosek, who kept Burmese pythons as pets growing up in Florida, also noted that the snakes are "escape artists" — and it's possible that some pet snakes could have snuck out of homes and into the warm, prey-filled habitats of southern Florida. It is now mostly illegal to keep the species as a pet in the state. RELATED STORIES —Burmese pythons are helping rats take over Florida's Everglades — and that could help spread disease —Enormous Burmese python killed in Florida Everglades was about to lay 60 eggs —The biggest snake in the world (and 9 other giant serpents) The population of wild Burmese pythons in Florida is unknown, but estimates suggest there could be hundreds of thousands out there. Last year's Python Challenge saw 231 snakes removed from the Everglades, and while initiatives like this are helpful in controlling the population, eradication is currently out of the question. "Eradication of the entire population across the landscape is not possible with any existing tools, whether applied singly or in combination," the 2023 report said. Read the full article

[reptiphoric]

HERE SHE IS!!

Everyone meet Locus, my first Burmese python and first "giant" period!! She's a 2019 female green het granite 66% ph albino. She seems smaller than I'd expect for being nearly a yearling (if the seller posted the correct info on MM, her hatchday is July 6th), but her overall body tone looks good and she seems healthy upon first impressions. Only thing that worries me is this little mark up near her neck;

No idea what it is. Almost looks like she could have been bit by a mouse or something, but she's supposed to be eating F/T prey. I'll be asking the seller about it here shortly.

And damn is this little girl chatty! I know burms are noisy, but Locus sounded like a tea kettle with how much she was hissing when I pulled her bag out of the box! No bites or strikes though.

I'm gonna be miserable keeping my hands off for the next week while she settles in. What a gorgeous snake, my poor camera phone just can't do her justice!

[pythox]

Pet Shop Boys (+ friendly Burmese Python) in their music video “King’s Cross”.

[thlpp]

We moved! Still unpacking and putting final touches on the house

Sunny is helping with painting.*

*) This was a fresh, never used roller sleeve, and I gently encouraged Sunny to let go after he'd mistakenly grabbed it. Everyone came away unscathed, if somewhat confused.

[dendroica]

A Burmese python in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Along with the venomous lionfish, the Burmese python is perhaps the least welcome invasive species in the state; lacking any natural predators, it has happily chomped its way through Florida’s wildlife.

Photograph: Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[lovingexotics]

Burmese Python Python bivittatus Source: Here

[mister-hisser]

I swear she gets better every shed. Lily is the definition of a “glow up”. 

[walterjenkel]

©photography by Walter Jenkel 2023 Granite Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) WALTER JENKEL @WalterJenkel walter_jenkel

[goliathsplopspot]

Sniffing the hand that feeds.

I haven’t posted much of Her Exalted Excessiveness, Queen of the Blue Bedroom,Grandmaster Hissybutt, Lady of Ginormous Poo, Gracie in quite some time, but here she is while my husband was cleaning her cage and she decided to bless him with a flicking of the royal tongue and an opportunity for a booping of the royal snoot.