Hoser, R. T. 2020.
A new subspecies of Green Python (Serpentes: Pythonidae:
Chondropython) from eastern New Guinea.
Australasian Journal of Herpetology 49:9-12.
Published 6 August 2020.
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marshmallow, the royal python mojave lesser (bel) morph | source
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staring contest by Werner Krause
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thank you Jeanne for the title recommendation :-)
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Do you know why green tree pythons do the coily thing?
This thing? It's just a really great way to balance on skinny branches when you're a long snake. It also has a bonus of helping them blend in well with vines and other foliage! GTPs like to live high up in trees, so they need to balance wissely so they won't fall or break branches when they curl up!
In a wonderful example of convergent evolution that proves it's just a good way to sit on skinny branches - emerald tree boas, despite being from a different family and living across the world, have a similar environment and like to curl up in the same way.
And it's not a position unique to them, either! Just about any snake might use a similar position when they need to curl up somewhere high. It's a great way of balancing weight to help a snake feel safe and comfortable on skinny or tall branches.
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Anytime someone from TB says that Rhaenyra should undoubtedly become Queen because she was chosen by a divinely ordained deer I laugh because when exactly did ‘random wild animal standing across from people’ become a basis for a system of government?!
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It is a pride month...
So have a demiromantic and demisexual ball python~! 💕
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my current reptile merch!! 🐍
I'm gonna be at the LA Reptile Super Show this weekend, so if you have any suggestions for more little guys feel free to comment/tag em
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Snake!Janus except it's actual snake things and he's cold-blooded and doesn't love and sees in Infrared.
Patton cooking them meals and everyone thinks Janus is sick or something cause he only eats every Friday and then sleeps the next two days
They don't let him do laundry because he just lays on the warm clothes, but they do keep the curtains open during the day
He always gives the sides blankets when they're cold or turns on a fan when they're warm without them telling him and it takes them forever to figure out how he knows
Just because he can't love them doesn't mean he doesn't feel safe or comfortable around them and he regrets ever telling them that
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this is so cute once again love and companionship triumphs
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daily snake #20
💚 The Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis), native to New Guinea, can reach a total length of 2 meters, weighing 1.6 kg. They live in trees, hunting mainly small reptiles and mammals.
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This is a very cool video, but I wanted to know if this is a real color that snakes can be or if this is edited. Also, if so, why? what causes them to be that color?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtRu7Zmg23A/?igshid=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
Link for everyone - it's a video of a bright blue green tree python.
Green tree pythons can be blue, but this video looks to have the saturation pumped up and is taking advantage of the lighting to make this snake look very blue.
A GTP this blue is extremely rare, and in imperfect lighting you can see they still have a green tinge, especially near the head.
Most blue GTPs look closer to this.
The blue is caused by structural coloration - that's when tiny structures on the snake's scales cause them to look like a certain color. Snakes don't really have a blue pigment, but most snakes who are green are actually mostly yellow pigment and blue structural coloration!
To get blue GTPs, breeders select for snakes with more of that structural coloration and tone down the yellow a bit. Because green snakes rely on blue structural coloration to look green, many green snakes will have blue color phases!
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