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20-Jul-07, 05:45 PM
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Well they definitely do have a prehensile tail!
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20-Jul-07, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilK  By no means do all pythons have prehensile tails. Arboreal pythons do. Terrestrial pythons have no need and their tails are often shorter and incapable of any real grasping actions | I agree phil....
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20-Jul-07, 06:17 PM
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I agree that there'd be degrees of prehensility (is that a word?) as yeah, sure, my spotted can wrap his tail (note: when I say tail I refer to the cloaca onwards, not the general 'back half') around stuff... But it's a short stumpy little tail and I can't imagine him hanging from branches by it... Unlike the longer more flexy tails of Morelia species
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