Be Honest now...

[BROWNS]

RE: Be Honest now..

LOL i had no intentions of making you sound stupid,i honestly thought they were still classed as a python and i'm wrong....looks like an overwhemling majority call for goose which is fair enough :lol: .I've read heaps and heaps of books and for the life of me i thought wether live bearers or not they were still pythons.I feel really dumb now and olddude you should inhale more often :wink:

 

[basketcase]

cheers neil! i was wondering myself when i typed it.

having said that...
http://www.kingsnake.com/rrreptiles/groundboas/ground_boas_007.htm

check out the text under taxonomy

 

[BROWNS]

RE: Be Honest now..

Geez i'd go well in that King Of The Jungle show on Animal Planet i think it is,i'd be having a hard time getting up the trees and then i'd identify an emeral tree boa as a python :roll: :lol:

 

[Guest]

This is me in prison in china my onley neighbor was a striped racing sea mullet.

 

[BROWNS]

Poor mullet :lol:

 

[Magpie]

That's a duck oldfella.

 

[Guest]

I was undercover for CIA magpie as a duck that day 8)

 

[Menagerie]

Re: Be Honest now..

I vote for browns as GOOSE :lol: Goodonya young dude for giving people entertainment some people sing and some people dance but you goose thats cool i onley fart.I think there is two species of boas in new guinea and solomon islands fiji etc i think its bibroni that is abundant on vanuatu and one film showed them runover on roads and hunting from chain wire fences etc.Taronga had a quantity of the species that looks thick and adder like light brown with zig zag down back adults and juvs they were destroyed as the head keeper told me they were not good exhibit animals bigguys greentree pythons were there at same time and were lovely green colour like tree frogs there was several crowded in one exhibit cage.That was late 80s bigguy i presume they were yours now unless they imported ausie ones they had no blue and were the best green colour that ive seen.

In the years that I lived in Fiji, I only ever saw one type of snake, and that was the black and white striped sea snake. Totally deadly but we swam with them all the time because they can only bite you in places like the webbing between your fingers.

There is even an island in Fiji just off the coast of Suva called Snake Island where they regularly come out of the water and lay on the rocks to bask.

 

[Jarvis78]

RE: Re: Be Honest now..

I had never thought about it before this. at least your mind is active browns man. I knew there where boas and there were pythons but I would have guessed they are all pythons.
you learn something new every day

 

[Hickson]

RE: Re: Be Honest now..

Totally deadly but we swam with them all the time because they can only bite you in places like the webbing between your fingers.

Ummmm...............sounds like an old wives tale to me. Why can't they bite you elsewhere? Like on a finger?



Hix

 

[Menagerie]

Re: RE: Re: Be Honest now..

Totally deadly but we swam with them all the time because they can only bite you in places like the webbing between your fingers.

Ummmm...............sounds like an old wives tale to me. Why can't they bite you elsewhere? Like on a finger?



Hix

Apparently - well according to the people that I was with (and considering they practically lived in the water all their lives, growing up in the village leaves you with time on your hands) their fangs (I believe that they are colubrids) simply aren't able to penetrate the tougher skin.

I am probably wrong, just telling from my personal experience there from pre-being-into-herp-keeping days (I lived there from 16-20).

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

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Persistent myths about sea snakes include the mistaken idea that they can't bite very effectively. The truth is that their short fangs (2.5-4.5mm) are adequate to penetrate the skin, and they can open their small mouths wide enough to bite a table top. It is said that even a small snake can bite a man's thigh. Sea snakes can swallow a fish that is more than twice the diameter of their neck.

Most sea snake bites occur on trawlers, when the snakes are sometimes hauled in with the catch. Only a small proportion of bites are fatal to man, as the snake can control the amount of envenomation, a fact probably accounting for the large number of folk cures said to be 95% effective.

Intense pain is not obvious at the site of the sea snake bite; 30 minutes after the bite there is stiffness, muscle aches and spasm of the jaw followed by moderate to severe pain in the affected limb. There follows progressive CNS symptoms of blurred vision, drowsiness and finally respiratory paralysis. A specific antivenin is available

oh yeh and theyre elapids

 

[Magpie]

RE: Re: Be Honest now..

In the years that I lived in Fiji, I only ever saw one type of snake, and that was the black and white striped sea snake. Totally deadly but we swam with them all the time because they can only bite you in places like the webbing between your fingers.

There is even an island in Fiji just off the coast of Suva called Snake Island where they regularly come out of the water and lay on the rocks to bask.

They are Kraits. (Maybe pronounced "Krite", maybe pronounced "Crate")
Sea snakes never leave the water voluntarily.
Kraits are incredibly hesitant to bite apparently.
I've chatted to people who've kept kraits like ordinary snakes, on newspaper with a water bowl.

 

[Menagerie]

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I wonder why they would all leave the water and go and bake on the rocks on that island then?

 

[instar]

Re: RE: Re: Be Honest now..

Totally deadly but we swam with them all the time because they can only bite you in places like the webbing between your fingers.

Ummmm...............sounds like an old wives tale to me. Why can't they bite you elsewhere? Like on a finger?






Hix

Prolly some assumption their fangs are tiny and cannot penetrate the skin on most parts of the body, or not through a wetsuit perhaps.?????

 

[Menagerie]

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lol - I was the only one that EVER wore a wetsuit there, and that was only to help me float without getting tired... water is gorgeous.

 

[Hickson]

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I wonder why they would all leave the water and go and bake on the rocks on that island then?

To warm up in the sun. It's faster than trying to warm up in water.

Incidentally, there is an island off New Caledonia where seasnakes come out of the water in large numbers and climb trees.



Hix