#northern white lipped python

[smol-lizord]

Sniffs you

[herpsandbirds]

Northern White-lipped Python aka D'Albert’s Water Python (Leiopython albertisii), family Pythonidae, found in New Guinea and a few small nearby islands

photograph by Reptiles4all

[brutus-the-skulldog]

Leiopython albertisii

( D'Albert's water python or the northern white-lipped python)

Look at the colors!!

This *big* guy is the white lip python! It can grow to 7 feet long and it's habitat is the lowland forests of new Guinea! It has the capability to eat small to medium size birds and mammals and uses heat-sensitive pits near the upper and lower jaw to hunt its food in the night! This big guy is suited to be a pet too!

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I don't have any snake friends to share with, and my lizard friends don't much get it, but I'm too excited not to share with someone! XD

I have a northern white lip that I got with the intention of breeding in the future, but for now I'm enjoying the challenge of taming down a snake we all know as being highly defensive.

I've had him for about a year now, and I just realized that I don't remember the last time I've been bitten or musked on! He hardly even tries to jump anymore. Sure, he'll never be as docile as a ball python, but we've made so much progress, and it feels amazing to be earning his trust. With enough care and love, even traditionally "spicy" snakes can be calmed

Oh wow, what a wonderful accomplishment!! That first year with snakes like white lips is always the hardest, it sounds like you're making huge progress! There's no better feeling than realizing a very defensive snake is starting to trust you - I've got a handful of wild-caught ratsnakes that weren't releasable due to injury, and whenever they don't bite me when I'm handling them, it feels like a bigger honor than when my captive-bred snakes fall asleep on me!

And good luck with the future breeding project! White lips are amazing snakes, I can't wait until the day when they're commonly available captive-bred.

[honeyrosepetals]

i want more snakes but im limited by my terrible adhd and inability to take care of more animals 😪 i want a hognose and a boa and a children's python and a northern white lipped python and a rosy boa and

[snakeswagbracket]

Holy executive dysfunction y'all! I meant to get this up much earlier so apologies! The bracket is complete and I will work on getting the first round of voting up soon! I know the picture is very hard to read so the bracket is also listed underneath the cut

Round 1A

Egg Eating Snake vs Keeled Slug Eating Snake

Eastern Speckled Kingsnake vs Smooth Snake

Albino Corn Snake vs Tessera Corn Snake

Gopher Snake vs Eastern Indigo Snake

Timber Rattlesnake vs Indonesian Pit Viper

Copperhead vs Northern Watersnake

Blue Lipped Sea Krait vs Blue Malayan Coral Snake

Rainbow Boa vs White Lipped Python

Round 1B

Ball Python vs Dwarf Burmese Python

Solomon Island Ground Boa vs Kenyan Sand Boa

Hognose Snake vs San Francisco Garter Snake

Mangrove Snake vs False Water Cobra

Green Anaconda vs Reticulated Python

Sidewinder vs Black Mamba

Golden Tree Snake vs Carpet Python

Blue Racer vs Eastern Yellowbelly Racer

[spicy-and-yet-sweet]

Intro

A side blog for Em, co-host of the Mirror System, and their two daemons to post about daemon things!

Prothomalion (Spicy) Nickname: Thom Daemon Type: Eudaimon Gender: Male Form: Yellow-throated marten Other common forms: mustang, serval, white-lipped python, raven, northern tamandua

Elethanyë (Sweet) Nickname: Ani Daemon Type: TDF Gender: Femme Form: Silken Windhound Other common forms: bamboo rat snake, violet-backed starling, clouded leopard, ragdoll, pyjama shark

[homestuck-human-generator]

Name: Mir Luna Nakano Color: Carob #362511 Symbol: Froggie Strife Specibus: rollingpinkind Handle: temporalToxicant Animal: zander Pronouns: re/rem/rheir/remself Age: 12 Birthday: April 25, which was a wednesday. Sexuality: it's a secret Interests: amateur astronomy and djembe Dream Moon: derse Classpect: Mage of Mind Land: Land of Garnet and Rain, a shiny place, with splendid Northern white-lipped python consorts. It is a place full of a black desert and lava. Nyx lurks in this land's mushrooms. Instrument: glockenspiel

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Name: Vr. Darane Noxosa Ancestor: The Volatile Strife Specibus: jokerkind Blood Color and Sign: Bronze; Taurga Handle: techniciansTurophile Lusus: hippopotamusdad Pronouns: she/her Age: 74 sweeps Interests: knife making and cartophily (card collecting) Sexuality: Every admirer is unreciprocated Class: Knight Land: Land of Vegetables and Angels, a dizzying place, with obnoxious Northern white-lipped python consorts. It is a place full of enthusiastic seas and twisting mazes. Prometheus wants to play. Quirk: use 9 eyes in your emotes and use 1's instead of l via roll-a-troll https://ift.tt/8kwpsGr, do as you please

[jupe-does-art]

Drawing/painting of a Northern White-Lipped Python! I absolutely adore these snakes, so I just had to try my hand at drawing one. The model for this drawing was spiceyspaghet’s snake on Instagram.

[smol-lizord]

I swear she’s super elegant and regal until the camera is out 😅

[herpsandbirds]

Northern White-lipped Python aka D'Albert's Water Python (Leiopython albertisii), family Pythonidae, found in New Guinea and a few small nearby islands

photograph by @my_reptile_diary_

[lovingexotics]

Northern White Lipped Python

Bothrochilus albertisii

Source: Here

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What’s your take on keeping white lipped pythons? (Mostly northerns but I’ve heard of southerns starting to be captive bred?) Have you worked with any before? I’ve done some research for myself since it’s one of my dream snakes but I wanted to hear what other people think about them ^^ love your blog by the way, hope you’re having a lovely day/evening!

They're super cool, but I've never been lucky enough to work with any before. I've only even seen them in person a handful of times. My take on keeping them now is that they mostly belong with advanced keepers who want to take a shot at breeding them, because most of them right now are wild-caught and breeding projects haven't really taken off yet.

Beyond the difficulty of finding a captive-bred baby (as it stands right now, if you want a white-lipped python, you will be getting a wild-caught snake 99 times out of 100), they'd make pretty solid pets. They tend to be great eaters and they're not very fragile. I'd put them solidly as an intermediate-level snake - they get to be big (7 feet is average for northerns, and southerns get a bit bigger at around 8-9 feet), and they're semi-arboreal so they need a large, tall enclosure. Their care isn't super intense, they like it hot with humidity at least 60%. They'd probably be a popular intermediate snake if they were easier to breed!

White-lipped pythons are super awesome, but until we start regularly seeing captive-bred babies, I think they belong in the wild and with keepers who can put in the work to establish captive breeding populations! That's my take for most snakes that aren't regularly bred in captivity.

[type40thiefoflight]

The Witcher but with Daemons

Borch: Bearded dragon (just a pet to keep up appearances)

Cahir: Blue Lacy or Weimaraner

Calanthe: Secretary bird

Cirilla: Lion

Coën: Peregrine falcon

Duny: European hedgehog

Eist: White-tailed eagle

Eskel: Black wolf

Fringilla: Melanistic red fox or hooded crow

Geralt: Starts off as a grey wolf but changes to a northern shrike or a loggerhead shrike after Blaviken. She changes again into a white wolf once Geralt’s accepted the reputation Jaskier’s curated for him.

Istredd: Western jackdaw or grey fox

Jaskier: Pacific swallow or hill swallow

Lambert: Red wolf or cougar

Pavetta: Lion

Renfri: Melanistic panther

Stregobor: Sunbeam snake

Téa: Thorny devil

Tissaia White-lipped python

Triss: Goldfinch

Véa: Horned lizard

Vesemir: Grey dire wolf

Visenna: Red fox

Yennefer: Common raven or bearded vulture

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Notes:

All children born under the Black Sun have black daemons, furthering the superstition surrounding the supposed curse.

Witchers’ daemons can’t settle but their prefered shape is usually the animal of their humans’ witcher school. Daemons can only take the form of non-magical animals so a witcher from the School of the Wolf could have a wolf daemon but a witcher from the School of the Griffin couldn’t have a griffin daemon. It would instead take the shape of a non-magical bird of prey like a hawk, falcon, or eagle.

When witchers undergo the Trial of the Grasses, one of the mutagens prevents their daemons from settling. It’s considered a tactical advantage for them stay unsettled because it allows them to better assist their humans in combat against different magical creatures.

I made Geralt’s daemon turn into a shrike because part of their scientific name is derived from the Latin word Lanius, which means butcher. Shrikes are also called butcherbirds because they’re carnivorous and impale their prey on spikes.

[snakeswagbracket]

Snake Swag Bracket Award Masterlist

Bracket Winner: White Lipped Python

Superlatives:

Tessera Corn Snake

Smooth Snake

Mangrove Snake

Blue Racer

Dwarf Burmese Python

Blue Malayan Coral Snake

Solomon Island Ground Boa

San Francisco Garter Snake

False Water Cobra

Ball Python

Indonesian Pit Viper

Reticulated Python

Copperhead

Kenyan Sand Boa

Golden Tree Snake

African Egg Eating Snake

Black Mamba

Eastern Yellowbelly Racer

Hognose Snake

Sidewinder

Albino Corn Snake

Northern Water Snake

Timber Rattlesnake

Eastern Indigo Snake

Green Anaconda

Blue Lipped Sea Krait

Brazilian Rainbow Boa

Eastern Speckled Kingsnake

Gopher Snake

Keeled Slug Eating Snake

Bonus Poll Winner: Glass Lizard