Jonny
Well-Known Member
Hey peeps,
I just got back from a bit over 3 weeks in Papua New Guinea. I had an awesome time and had a bit of herp fun while there.
A couple of geckos that I caught in my uncle's house in Kimbe. These guys are everywhere up there. It was entertaining watching them chase insects across the ceiling while eating dinner at the local clubhouse 8) . My uncle kills them if they are in the house :cry: but I managed to educate him telling him that they would eat any insects that got into the house.
When I stayed in Rabaul, the family I stayed with had a phobia of geckoes and would scream wheneva I chased a gecko around the house :lol:
This is a pic of me with a python of some sort (sorry don't know the name/species). It was a male from the spur size tho. The guy who owned it bought it of a native earlier that day. It looked as tho it hadn't been fed for a while because it was a bit thin. While I was there a italian/australian guy I talked to had been offered a large green tree python.
The guy who owned the python had about 20 other pythons back at his house and said he fed them bananas :shock: because they are all wild caught he said he would put his mouth over their noses and blow and this would "tame" them :?
This was a squashed baby snake found on a road in Rabaul. I honestly don't know what type of snake it is but would assume its some type of python as New Britain doesn't have any venomous snakes(or so they say)
A beautiful looking skink with an emreld head found at a beach in Rabaul. Another skink I saw while in Kimbe had an electric blue tail but I wasnt fast enough to catch and photograph it.
Here is a monitor that had fallen into a sunken metal drum that we had found while out hunting with some natives. The natives kill them for food and use their skin for making kundu drums. You can imagine their displeasement when I picked it up out of the drum and released it :twisted: . I made up for it by shooting a couple of extra flying foxes for them to eat :wink:
While mixing with the locals I learnt the different attitudes towards snakes in different parts of PNG. Natives in Kimbe kill snakes and eat them, natives in Rabaul will kill snakes or catch them and sell them to any white/chines/italian man they see. The natives in Port Moresby are absolutely terrified of snakes as it is home to the Papuan Black and a bite from that is almost guaranteed death so they steer clear.
I hope to go back at the end of the year and hopefully I will get to do alot more herping than what I got to this time.
cheers
Jonny
I just got back from a bit over 3 weeks in Papua New Guinea. I had an awesome time and had a bit of herp fun while there.
A couple of geckos that I caught in my uncle's house in Kimbe. These guys are everywhere up there. It was entertaining watching them chase insects across the ceiling while eating dinner at the local clubhouse 8) . My uncle kills them if they are in the house :cry: but I managed to educate him telling him that they would eat any insects that got into the house.
When I stayed in Rabaul, the family I stayed with had a phobia of geckoes and would scream wheneva I chased a gecko around the house :lol:
This is a pic of me with a python of some sort (sorry don't know the name/species). It was a male from the spur size tho. The guy who owned it bought it of a native earlier that day. It looked as tho it hadn't been fed for a while because it was a bit thin. While I was there a italian/australian guy I talked to had been offered a large green tree python.
The guy who owned the python had about 20 other pythons back at his house and said he fed them bananas :shock: because they are all wild caught he said he would put his mouth over their noses and blow and this would "tame" them :?
This was a squashed baby snake found on a road in Rabaul. I honestly don't know what type of snake it is but would assume its some type of python as New Britain doesn't have any venomous snakes(or so they say)
A beautiful looking skink with an emreld head found at a beach in Rabaul. Another skink I saw while in Kimbe had an electric blue tail but I wasnt fast enough to catch and photograph it.
Here is a monitor that had fallen into a sunken metal drum that we had found while out hunting with some natives. The natives kill them for food and use their skin for making kundu drums. You can imagine their displeasement when I picked it up out of the drum and released it :twisted: . I made up for it by shooting a couple of extra flying foxes for them to eat :wink:
While mixing with the locals I learnt the different attitudes towards snakes in different parts of PNG. Natives in Kimbe kill snakes and eat them, natives in Rabaul will kill snakes or catch them and sell them to any white/chines/italian man they see. The natives in Port Moresby are absolutely terrified of snakes as it is home to the Papuan Black and a bite from that is almost guaranteed death so they steer clear.
I hope to go back at the end of the year and hopefully I will get to do alot more herping than what I got to this time.
cheers
Jonny
