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17-Jan-07, 05:17 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Hunter NSW | | |
The attached URL is a scan of a photo I have at home. The parchment in the back of the photo reads as follows.
" 18 foot Rock Python after swallowing a 170 lb kangaroo.
'Crendon' Maxwellton, N.QLD 1924"
Looks like an Olive to me. 170lbs = 77 kg, that's pretty big. http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...RockPython.jpg
I really hope you can view this, it has taken me nearly a month to get this far.
Thanks to those that offered advice. |
17-Jan-07, 05:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Tamworth Gender:  | | | | far out |
17-Jan-07, 05:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Surry Hills Sydney Age: 20 | | | | That roo is heavier than I am. Scary thought. |
17-Jan-07, 05:23 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27 | | | | what ever it is it looks dead. Looks like they've opened its neck up.
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17-Jan-07, 05:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | great pic,id have the photo on the wall,
you can see the shape of the roo
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17-Jan-07, 05:25 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Townsville | | | | wow, thats a great photo.
on another note, can anybody else see the profile of a man that looks like Elvis in the background.
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17-Jan-07, 05:25 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | that's just stretched skin i don't think it has been cut open. That is for sure a big python!
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17-Jan-07, 05:43 PM
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17-Jan-07, 07:51 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Sydney | | | | Or could it be a scrub python? It looks like some patterns on the body left side of the roo.
Is there any follow up info to the info in the back of the parchment? |
17-Jan-07, 08:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | There ya go! That's some Australian History for you. 1924 eh?? Phew!!! that is one big snake. Cheers Cheryl
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17-Jan-07, 08:43 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: melbourne | | | | I have seen some photos of a python that ate a wallaby and couldn't move for weeks after. I'm pretty sure it was a olive but cant remember exactly.
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17-Jan-07, 08:46 PM
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17-Jan-07, 08:48 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 15 | | | | thats cool |
17-Jan-07, 08:57 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | Rock python would suggest an oenpelli.
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17-Jan-07, 09:20 PM
| | | | its an olive and the pic comes from Edgar Waites book Reptiles of South Australia 1929.
cheers Matt | | |
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