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SRI LANKAN PYTHON
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This is a Sri Lankan Python [Python m. pimbura]. This python occupies many habit types in Sri Lanka.
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An intentional release of Ball Pythons in Georgia
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Releasing potentially invasive snakes into North American ecosystems is apparently an on-going problem. While Burmese and North African Pythons have been released into southern Florida and become a serious threat to wildlife. Other snakes could become established in other parts of the country and result in damage to local ecosystems. Ball pythons are being spotted…
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Maternal behavior in the South African python, Python natalensis
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A brooding North African Python, Python sebae. This species is larger than theSouth African Python, but both species brood their eggs. J. Lanki Wikipedia Commons The South African python, Python natalensis, lays eggs, and displays behaviors and attributes that seem directed toward her offsprings’ survival, both before and after hatching. Alexander (2018), studies maternal behavior in these snakes…
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The second species of Malayopython, Malayopython timoriensis (Peters, 1876)
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The Reticulated Python is the well—known member of the genus Malayopython. There is, however, a second species in the genus. The Timor python is not as long – reaching about 2.4 m (8 ft) in total length and 9 kg in weight. Timor Pythons are a green-brown snake with a dark brown pattern from its…
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Sun-basking, a necessity not a leisure: Anthropogenic driven disturbance, changing the basking pattern of the vulnerable Indian rock python in Keoladeo National Park, India (Abstract)
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Basking’ is the most conspicuous thermoregulatory behavior in many animals that enable them to enhance physiological performance. Several terrestrial poikilothermic ectotherms have adapted to thermoregulate through basking and seek refuge in subterranean burrows in extreme climatic conditions. Particularly in reptiles, selecting appropriate activity times and postural adjustments are critical thermoregulatory mechanisms and have been recognized…
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Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons (ABSTRACT)
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Identification of the origin of parasites of nonindigenous species (NIS) can be complex. NIS may introduce parasites from their native range and acquire parasites from within their invaded range. Determination of whether parasites are non‐native or native can be complicated when parasite genera occur within both the NIS’ native range and its introduced range. We…
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Boldness correlates with the mating success in varanid lizards
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Yellow Spotted Monitor (Varanus panoptes) Photo by Greg Hume Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report in the Ecological Society of America’s open access journal Ecosphere. But boldness has a cost: bold individuals expose themselves to a much…
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