101. BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Python Puts Squeeze On Thai Biker Samrauy Phonlerk, a local villager, had volunteered to take the snake to a Emergency workers who came to the scene found the python tightly coiled http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3346625.stm

Home TV Radio Talk ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Last Updated: Wednesday, 24 December, 2003, 13:14 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Python puts squeeze on Thai biker A Thai man is unconscious after almost being squeezed to death by a four-metre python he was carrying on a motorbike. Samrauy Phonlerk, a local villager, had volunteered to take the snake to a national park after it was found in Pracinburi town, east of the capital Bangkok. A friend agreed to drive him there on his motorcycle, but as they were setting off the friend noticed that the snake appeared to have escaped from a bag and to be strangling Samruay. The friend abandoned the motorcycle at a busy intersection and ran for help. Emergency workers who came to the scene found the python tightly coiled around its victim. More than a dozen people beat the snake with sticks for over 20 minutes before it relented. "Samrauy lost a lot of blood because he was bitten and constricted, but he came out of the intensive care unit this morning, although he is still unconscious," a police spokesman said. The python was later released into the jungle.

102. Lazy Snakes! Pythons Can Be Couch Potatoes, Too Lazy snakes! Pythons can be couch potatoes, too. Consumption of certain food types cause the constricting reptile to expend excessive energy in digestion http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2002/A/2002847.html

August 2002 From American Physiological Society Lazy snakes! Pythons can be couch potatoes, too Consumption of certain food types cause the constricting reptile to expend excessive energy in digestion San Diego, CA Comic strip genius Gary Larson, creator of "The Far Side," is noted for morphing animal scientific attributes into human behavior. Consider the sketch of a family of pythons laying about after Thanksgiving dinner. The snakes that consumed a mouse, some chicken, and glucose are ready to go out and play football shortly after dining. But the pythons that indulged on the starchy foods cannot budge from the couch, still trying to digest their meal. A scene from a Larson cartoon? Perhaps. But it is also a notion based in scientific fact. A team of California researchers have tested pythons, determining the reptiles' specific dynamic action (SDA), or the metabolic increment associated with a python's digestion, assimilation, and excretion of specific foods. SDA is determined not by how much it eats, but what it eats. Moreover, the energy required for a certain level of SDA accounts for a large energy expenditure, which may reduce the metabolic scope available for other activities. http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/san_diego/home.htm

103. Ribbit Photography - Pythons And Boas snakes. Gartersnakes and Ribbonsnakes Racers and Whipsnakes Pythons Vipers Other snakes Ribbit Photography Home http://www.ribbitphotography.com/snakes/pythons.html

Gartersnakes and Ribbonsnakes Racers and Whipsnakes Vipers Other Snakes ... Ribbit Photography Home Click on thumbnails to view larger images. Large-blotched Python Antaresia stimsoni Watarrka NP, NT, Australia Large-blotched Python Antaresia stimsoni Watarrka NP, NT, Australia Large-blotched Python Antaresia stimsoni Watarrka NP, NT, Australia Rubber Boa Charina bottae Fresno Co., CA Rubber Boa Charina bottae Fresno Co., CA Rubber Boa Charina bottae Fresno Co., CA Amethystine Python Morelia amethistina Daintree River, Qld., Australia Carpet Python Morelia spilota variegata Lamington NP, Qld., Australia Carpet Python Morelia spilota variegata Lamington NP, Qld., Australia Carpet Python Morelia spilota variegata Lamington NP, Qld., Australia Carpet Python Morelia spilota variegata Lamington NP, Qld., Australia Carpet Python Morelia spilota variegata Lamington NP, Qld., Australia We have many more snake images available in our library. Please email We also offer photo greeting cards and prints of all of our photos. Search Ribbit Photography with Google: Frogs Salamanders Lizards Other Reptiles ... About Us

104. Pythons Gone Wild: Freed Pet Snakes Thrive In Everglades - Billingsgazette.com Billings Gazette Online News, sports, information, weather, and classifieds for Montana and Wyoming. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/23/build/n

105. New England Reptile Distributors, Designer Ball Pythons, Reticulated Pythons, An Captive bred, well started ball pythons make an excellent first snake for the Never leave a live rodent unattended with ANY snake. Ball pythons are http://www.newenglandreptile.com/CareBall.html

The Most Extensive Collection of Ball Python Mutations in Captivity NERD Herpetocultural Library Name: Ball python Scientific name: Python regius AKA: "Royal python" General Information Distribution Wild Status Description Ball pythons are robust serpents with a distinctive head & slender neck. Normal body coloration is black with yellow, gold, or brown markings. Pattern may be "broken," banded or reduced in some specimens, and many exhibit varying degrees of broken dorsal striping. Wild-caught ball pythons are notorious for being difficult to acclimate: these are the animals that give balls their reputation for being terrible feeders. Going with a captive born, well established ball python is a must for making your first ball python experience a good one. These are somewhat shy snakes that fare much better in captivity when acquired from a reliable CB source. Size Hatchlings approximately 10"+/-. Females average 3'- 5', males average 2' - 3' adult size. This is a species in which mature females are typically distinctly larger than the males. A 5+ foot ball python is considered large, although lengths of 6+ feet have been reported.

106. Ball Pythons An article by Melissa Kaplan on the natural history and keeping of ball pythons. http://www.anapsid.org/ball.html

Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Collection Last updated September 18, 2002 Ball Pythons Python regius Natural History Ball pythons ( Python regius ) are found at the edges of the forest lands of Central and Western Africa. They are equally comfortable on the ground and in trees. They are crepuscular, active around dawn and dusk. Called royal pythons in Europe, here in the United States we call them "balls" due to their habit of curling themselves up into a tight ball when they are nervous, their heads pulled firmly into the center. Like most pythons, ball pythons are curious and gentle snakes. Ball pythons typically reach 4 feet (1.2 m) in length; occasionally there are specimens that reach 5 feet (1.5 m). When properly fed, their bodies become nicely rounded. Like all pythons and boas, ball pythons have anal spurs. These single claws appearing on either side of the vent are the vestigial remains of the hind legs snakes lost during their evolution from lizard to snake millions of years ago. Males have longer spurs than do the females; males also have smaller heads than the females. Ball pythons, like all pythons and boas, devour a variety of prey in the wild - amphibians, lizards, other snakes, birds and small mammals. They do not eat mice in the wild, however, and do not recognize the mice we offer them as being something edible. Thus, imported wild-caught ball pythons tend to be very picky eaters, at least initially, and drive their owners to distraction in their attempts to get them to eat something.

107. Ball Pythons, A Troubleshooting Guide To Extensive information including housing, care and husbandry, feeding strategies, breeding, vocabulary, resources, and frequently asked questions. http://www.kingsnake.com/ballpythonguide/

Troubleshooting Guide to BALL PYTHONS Natural History General Information Housing Your Snake Care and Husbandry ... Resources This site is a subsidiary of the http://ballpython.snakes.net network. HINT: Simultaneously hit the [CTRL] and [F] keys to search this page for key word(s). Natural History Ball Pythons, Python regius (also know as Royal Python) are a relatively small and docile specie of snake, which are native to Western and West-Central Africa. If you have purchased a Ball Python from a pet store, chances are it was born in either Togo, Benin, or Ghana. They are called 'Ball Pythons' because, when frightened, they coil around their head and into a ball. Ball pythons are in the same scientific family as other Boas and Pythons, as such they are constrictors. The term constrictor refers to their method of subduing food by coiling around the intended item, a small mammal, and suffocating it. Ball Pythons prefer to live in areas of mixed grassland and trees (savanna), and are active at night (nocturnal). They hunt at night with the help of their labial heat pits , and their Jacobson's Organ . During the day, they spend their time hiding in underground rodent burrows or termite mounds.

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