Thread: Another Python

A couple of months back I posted about a large Python that was stealing chickens from the house next door.
Despite it all happening in the dead of night I got a verbal bashing because of the lack of pictures.
Well I hope to make amends now although with a much smaller Python.
I assume this is a Python, please shout if you identify because the only thing I know about snakes is that it's safer to run when you see one.

The snake had just eaten two chickens and was trapped in the chicken house.
The owner is holding the door shut to keep him in .

A little bit braver this time Thets, good pics. Lucky it was caged for you.

Burmese Python by the looks of it.

^^ Yep, that's definitely a python. A very full one at that !!

His head has been tied up with rope.
Not big as Pythons go, but would make a few handbags.

Originally Posted by bkkmadness

Lucky it was caged for you.

Burmese Python by the looks of it.

Yes very lucky.
Can get a good look at it.

Burmese are the aggressive ones aren't they?
And smaller than a recticulated ?

did you guys kill it ? not very nice,

Python kills zoo keeper, tries to eat him

06:08 AEST Tue Aug 26 2008
6 hours 48 minutes ago



An Asian python has killed a Venezuelan college student. (Getty)

PHOTOS: Man nearly eaten by snake





A 3m Burmese Python killed a student zookeeper in Caracas on the weekend and was caught trying to swallow its dead human prey when horrified co-workers arrived, Venezuela's El Universal newspaper has reported.
The other employees of the Caracas zoo had to beat the serpent to make it release the body of 29-year-old Erick Arrieta, whose head it was swallowing.
According to the daily, Arrieta had been working the nightshift alone on Saturday, looking after the reptile section of the zoo.
The university biology student had broken the park's rules by entering the cage holding the snake, which had been donated two months ago and was not on public display, according to the zoo's management.
A snake bite on his arm indicated the python had attacked Arrieta before wrapping itself around him and crushing him to death.
"The young man underestimated the animal's instinct," said the director general of the Parque del Este zoo, Javier Hernandez.

Python kills zoo keeper, tries to eat him

Both species can be quite aggressive I would guess, but like most snakes, only when confronted. Reticulated are longer (longest snakes in the world reaching about 9-10 metres) but the Burmese can get to a good 7 metres too.

I don't think you need telling keeping a safe distance from them both is a wise move.

A snake dealer has been located now and it will be sold to him.
Price, I am told, is 50 baht per kilo.
Hopefully the loss of two chickens will not make it worth while.
I don't want him to start attracting the buggers because it is literally next door.

Burmese can grow to 28 ft
looks like a few kilos of bush meat on that one!

^^ That old dear is going to have her recipe book out in a minute.

Ngu pad krapow!!!!
yummy

Where do you live Thetters?

corr!! great stuff ! cool pics

I thought that the Burmese python was now a protected species in Thailand.

Just done a few internet searches, and yes indeed, Python molarus bivittatus is indeed a protected species here in Thailand.

Not as common as the reticulated hence now a protected species. A beautiful snack I mean snake I'd say!!

Nice python, use to have a 6 footer back in Scotland. Unfortunatly had to send this cobra on to the next life at six this morning before it had one or more of the dogs.

Ok now found out how to post big photo.

If that thing showed up at the house next door to me the bloody "for sale" signs would be up within the hour. Thats the trouble with living out bannork, nasty shit like this appears. I'm a city boy, snakes freak me out

^ I had a 2 metre Monitor lizard and a King Cobra next door (1.4 M wall) just 3 months ago.
I am in BKK

I hate snakes!