i don't like snakes.
on sunday morning we noticed a 2-3 metre python, with a belly full of possum or something else, lazily sunning itself on top of a trellis/fence adjoining our house (our bedroom in fact). it stayed there all day and didn't really move until about 10am the next morning.
when it did move it went & found a spot a few metres higher up in a nearby tree, about 5-6 metres about the ground, and it was still there this morning, nearly 48 hours later.
this is not the first time we have seen this or similar pythons around our house over the past 3 years; other citings have occured, twice with the python in the process of devouring a poor possum.
this has been somewhat disconcerting, particualy on sunday night when - whilst lying in bed - i knew this thing was sitting with its belly full of mammal only about 3-4 metres from my head ...
but strangely, over the past 4 days i have kind of developed some form of new appreciation for pythons, at least based upon this one - e.g. their evident satisfaction in lying for days in the sun (or night), barely moving, just mellowly sitting there watching the world go by around them. well, at least this is the case for this one when it has a nice big meal to slowly digest and is probably easing into hibernation mode and perhaps trying to catch enough sunlight before hibernating. and in a way i prefer it to stay in a spot where it is visible (albeit at a comfortable distance) rather than have it slithering off to hide in some unknown hole in our yard or nearby.
nonetheless i am religiously keeping all fly-screens closed on all windows & doors around our house ...
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on sunday morning we noticed a 2-3 metre python, with a belly full of possum or something else, lazily sunning itself on top of a trellis/fence adjoining our house (our bedroom in fact). it stayed there all day and didn't really move until about 10am the next morning.
when it did move it went & found a spot a few metres higher up in a nearby tree, about 5-6 metres about the ground, and it was still there this morning, nearly 48 hours later.
this is not the first time we have seen this or similar pythons around our house over the past 3 years; other citings have occured, twice with the python in the process of devouring a poor possum.
this has been somewhat disconcerting, particualy on sunday night when - whilst lying in bed - i knew this thing was sitting with its belly full of mammal only about 3-4 metres from my head ...
but strangely, over the past 4 days i have kind of developed some form of new appreciation for pythons, at least based upon this one - e.g. their evident satisfaction in lying for days in the sun (or night), barely moving, just mellowly sitting there watching the world go by around them. well, at least this is the case for this one when it has a nice big meal to slowly digest and is probably easing into hibernation mode and perhaps trying to catch enough sunlight before hibernating. and in a way i prefer it to stay in a spot where it is visible (albeit at a comfortable distance) rather than have it slithering off to hide in some unknown hole in our yard or nearby.
nonetheless i am religiously keeping all fly-screens closed on all windows & doors around our house ...
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posted by fergal at 6:39 PM
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I have a serious snake phobia, myself. It goes beyond any rational thought to some kind of deep-seated phylogenetic memory. Still, I'm fascinated by reptiles, and especially the way the cloaca unfolded through mammalian evolution to form the sex and waste organs we know and love.
u r evidently a kinky man! ;-D
on a somewhat related note, somebody told me that two snakes mating is quite an impressive phenomenon wherein they coil themselves around each other numerous times (like two helics of dna i guess!) .... still, as an indian man in auckland told me last week, "they just give you a creepy feeling you know!?"
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