What do you think your Python eats in the Wild?

[ophidianman]

Here is an interesting link to a slide show of Pythons in the wild / in your house eating a variety of prey items including Cats, Dogs, Cockatoos and Wallabies. Heh can anyone here afford to feed their Amethystine on a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo?!!! Mostly Australian Pythons but there are a couple of pics of Retics too. I was 'discussing' how large Diamond x Jungle Carpets could grow with someone on here a while ago and the size of some of the Carpets shown here are immense, especially the one in the link entitled 'Snake grabs Possum snack' under the slide show.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5031513-5010140,00.html

[Ozgi]

Lol, awesome! My friend is in Oz at the moment, apparently there are flocks of cockatoos everywhere!!

[Barney_M]

i keep childrnes pythons and it has been priven that their diet is more varied than any other python. they eat rodents, bats, frogs, lizard and there is one recorded case of a sub adult childrens python eating another snake.

[VoodooWitchDoctor]

They will eat anything they can get down their gulit!

Wicked link matey!



Matt

PS. There is suppose to be around 30,000 wild paraketes roming around South West London and as their numbers increase, they are gonna seriously gonna damage our fruit crops in coming years, by the way!
So I reckon if we release 2000 Morelia into the areas they habitat, to control their numbers!

And I'm kidding about releasing the snakes by the way, but serious about the paraketes though!

[Ozgi]

Originally Posted by VoodooWitchDoctor

They will eat anything they can get down their gulit!

Wicked link matey!



Matt

PS. There is suppose to be around 30,000 wild paraketes roming around South West London and as their numbers increase, they are gonna seriously gonna damage our fruit crops in coming years, by the way!
So I reckon if we release 2000 Morelia into the areas they habitat, to control their numbers!

And I'm kidding about releasing the snakes by the way, but serious about the paraketes though!

Did you know those parakeets were supposedly released by Jimi Hendrix in the 60's to "introduce some colour into London".

[ophidianman]

Originally Posted by Ozgi

Did you know those parakeets were supposedly released by Jimi Hendrix in the 60's to "introduce some colour into London".

Now that is interesting. I'll have to do some research into that story.

Thanks

[Ozgi]

Originally Posted by ophidianman

Now that is interesting. I'll have to do some research into that story.

Thanks

It's just one of many suggestions as to how they got there. Another popular one is that they escaped from a film set, can't remember what film, Amazon Queen or something like that.
They were probably just escaped pets, lol.

There were also a lot of Ring-necked Parakeets in Amsterdam when I went there recently.

[Moonleh]

Very cool, I love stuff like this, when you keep so many snakes in captivity it can be easy to forget that their wild lives are really quite different.

[rc10andy]

Originally Posted by Barney_M

i keep childrnes pythons and it has been priven that their diet is more varied than any other python. they eat rodents, bats, frogs, lizard and there is one recorded case of a sub adult childrens python eating another snake.

Proven where? Im not being funny id just like to read it cos i love Anterisia spp.

[Ozgi]

I wanna know why on earth that one ate 4 golf balls! lol. As for the electric blanket, I can't even picture how that happened.