Rock Python

[Kermit]

Slick's Shorts

Hello Slick,

Does Jane know you are putting pictures like that out to the public.

Cheers
Kermit

 

[Slickturtle]

Hello Slick,

Does Jane know you are putting pictures like that out to the public.

Cheers
Kermit

Hi Kermit

No she doesn't! And she certainly would not approve of me putting this one up. This is even worse?

Cheers

Slickturtle

 

[Guest]

haha you just like showing them things off slick

at least your wearing boots while playing with those ones

 

[Bushman]

Duty of care

i would still like to hear from goneself the thread creator, he did after all claim to be offered one of these beauties????
i wonder if it was a sham or an illegal animal......

I too would like to hear from 'Goneself'. I sent a couple of polite PM's inquiring about the Oenpelli offered to them and haven't been given the courtesy of a reply. I know that he/she is following this discussion, so will probably read this.

Perhaps 'Goneself' accepted the animal and is now trying to keep it to themselves, which is understandable if it was legally acquired. They're certainly very rarely, if ever offered for sale.

Goneself, make sure that you look after it well if you do have it in your custody. If not, the animal deserves (and needs!) to be in the very best of hands, which is unlikely if a poacher still has it.

 

[AUSHERP]

yeah goneself sorta disappeared hey? i wonder......

@ slickturtle would troglodytes not bask at all?

 

[cockney red]

goneself is a wind up merchant....or a bovine excreter,,,,,

 

[Colin]

I was chatting with a Queenslander the other week on Face Book and they mentioned they had a rock python.. oenpelli or african rock python I enquired turned out to be an "antaresia" :lol:

 

[cockney red]

I was chatting with a Queenslander the other week on Face Book and they mentioned they had a rock python.. oenpelli or african rock python I enquired turned out to be an "antaresia" :lol:

I.ve got Afrock, its a little off the shoulder number....

 

[Southside Morelia]

goneself is a wind up merchant....or a bovine excreter,,,,,

Now that would be painful.....:cry:

I do like that second pic slick, the backdrop and colours are awesome...any more pics you can post, either of the animal in question more so, or any others that you have taken in that wonderful part of Australia.... Start a new thread mate...

 

[Kristy_07]

Now that would be painful.....:cry:

I do like that second pic slick, the backdrop and colours are awesome...any more pics you can post, either of the animal in question more so, or any others that you have taken in that wonderful part of Australia.... Start a new thread mate...

A new thread called, "What Herpers Really Get Up To" :lol: That 2nd pic is a classic, mate!

 

[AUSHERP]

Herpetology seriously serious stuff

 

[Slickturtle]

Good question Ausherp. They probably would - Rock Possums come out and sit on rock shelves before dark. It makes sense, I guess, that a cold blooded reptile would come out and get warm on hot rocks before dark. I made some enquiries and nobody knows much about how the sandstone bats are getting on. The experts don't have any reason for concern apart from one little Hipposideros stenotis

Cheers

Slick

yeah goneself sorta disappeared hey? i wonder......

@ slickturtle would troglodytes not bask at all?

 

[AUSHERP]

what was the concern with that bat? how long since you have seen oenpelliensis in the wild? are they abundant in the areas they are found?

 

[Slickturtle]

The old Slick and buddy

Hi Scott

Well, the years have come and gone and shorts have changed and Slickturtle looks more like this these days:

 

[Bushman]

Looking good Slick! Is that another Pseudechis australis?

 

[Slickturtle]

Oh, the business about the bats was all about what is causing the massive decline in wildlife in the area where these snakes are found. We were thinking about what Oenpellis eat, as a clue to how they might be faring. It is a safe bet that little Oenpellis would eat cave dwelling bats. The snake is ideally shaped for a life in caves and so on. I asked the experts if there was any sign of bats going down the gurgler which might lead young Oenpellis to snuff out. But nobody knows. Here is an adult by Ian Morris (something to droop over!!).

what was the concern with that bat? how long since you have seen oenpelliensis in the wild? are they abundant in the areas they are found?

 

[Slickturtle]

Was a Pseudechis australis!! They are pretty much a thing of the past up here now. That was a farewell shot. I miss them.

 

[Bushman]

That's a damned shame! I assume that this is primarily due to invasion by ferals, esp. cane toads.:evil:

Thanks for posting that excellent portrait of an Oenpelli. Its presence on the thread completes an already great discussion on the subject. God I hope that this magnificent creature survives the undeniable pressures upon it.

 

[AUSHERP]

wow!

 

[Pythoninfinite]

Well... if we keep on doing what we've always done, we'll get what we've always got. If the 'conservation strategies' currently in place don't change (and change VERY significantly) the Oenpelli will definitely go the way of other larger vertebrates in this country. My belief is that it is clearly heading toward extinction - these things are so intricately meshed with their environment that they cannot cope with the huge changes being wrought by habitat change, toads etc... Bureaucrats will sit on their hands in every state in this country and allow these things to happen because they can't break the mould they were cast into. As has been mentioned countless times, the RSP is an exquisite example of what can be done to secure a species when it is placed in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. Of course, Peter Krauss was also likely to be a fabulous steward of this amazing species, but the law (in this case a very stupid law) prevailed, with the result that the species has never bred again. It's just humbug, plain and simple.

Wildlife authorities in this country are, truly, very much agents of extinction, I would argue moreso than the keepers and enthusiasts they persecute.

Greg, was your 'something to droop over' a Freudian slip???

Jamie.