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26-Feb-03, 03:17 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Hunter Valley | | |
I came across an old aquaintance yesterday when I got in from work. He's a diamond with a missing eye (and a dodgy looking other eye). He's about a metre and a half long. He seems to get about ok -he was in the big shed on the weekend and outside the chook pen yesterday (100 metres away). I had a closer look at him this time and got a few photos (well actually 29) of which 3 are at the link below.
I made an interesting observation about him. I'm reasonably sure that he's totally blind in his 'good' eye as he shows no reaction to movement around his face. Yet he's a wild snake and obviously manages to find his food. I took some closeups of him from about 25 cm with a flash. I was impressed with his response of a photo taken from his eyeless side. He spun his head in the direction of the camera. I can only assume it's the response to heat from the flash on his labial pits. The speed of the reaction was very fast - as quick as a strike. Those pits must be extremely sensative.
Anyway I'll keep an eye out for him and if I get a chance to suplement his diet with the odd rat I'll do that.
If you're interested in the piccies they're at http://www.aussiepythons.com/modules...view_album.php
I also think I might now get a ticket to the STP glove party. |
26-Feb-03, 04:27 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Cool Graham, thanks for sharing them with us!
PS. Go the gloves! 
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26-Feb-03, 05:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Detroit, MI USA | | | | Very cool. He's purty knarly lookin'. Maybe you could hook him up with a patch or something. :wink: |
26-Feb-03, 06:06 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Hunter Valley | | | Hey Al I never thought of that - that makes 4 members of the "catch the Patch' Club. |
26-Feb-03, 06:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Detroit, MI USA | | | | Maybe he could be our team mascot. I think it would be appropriate. |
26-Feb-03, 06:41 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Hunter Valley | | | YWIMC  Catch The Patch  Catch The Patch |
26-Feb-03, 07:46 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Nice pics Graham. Feel sorry for the poor Diamond though.
You're lucky you have all that wildlife around you and I think snakie is kinda kucky too, hanging aroud your place.  |
26-Feb-03, 07:54 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Hunter Valley | | | Hi Artie
yea I kinda feel sorry for him (I called him solitaire) and I noticed while I was handling him that he had only one other little skin blemish - no ticks etc. but he felt as though he had lost a bit of weight - felt a bit baggy.
Next time I see him I'm gonna retain him for a day in an outside enclosure and give him a decent feed just to help him through the Winter. I sort of feel attached.  |
26-Feb-03, 07:59 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Good on ya mate |
26-Feb-03, 08:03 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | |  I made a couple of typos in my previous post, kucky = lucky, aroud= around.....but I guess you figured it out. Cheers,  |
27-Feb-03, 06:44 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Townsville | | | Is the flash loud? I'd think the noise would be more likely to get such an immediate response.. if not though, wow |
27-Feb-03, 08:17 PM
| | | | Wild Solitaire
Graham have you thought about getting a rescue licence as this snake would be a prime candidate.
Even though it has survived this long it might be wise to keep it safe for the rest of its life.
If you obtain a rescue permit you may be able to keep her legally which would be great for it and you |
28-Feb-03, 11:15 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Hey Same, I thought snakes have no external hearing !?  |
01-Mar-03, 01:40 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Hunter Valley | | | | The flash is silent so I think it was the heat that caused the reaction.
From my recent reading it would appear that snakes actually hear airborne sound better than vibration. - Geordie Torr.
I'm interested in the rescue licence. What's that all about then?? |
01-Mar-03, 02:46 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | Hi Grahamh,
I have that book, unfortunately I've lent it out. On what page does it say that?
It's very strange because at present I'm reading a book "The Snake" by Lenny Flank,Jr. and it says: "Snakes don't have ears and are completely deaf to airborne sounds, but they do pick up vibrations through their jawbones and scent molecules on their tongues. The scent molecules are transmitted through the mouth to the Jacobson's Organ, and then translated in the brain to tell snakes about their envionment."
I also have a book "Australian Snakes" and there is says (I think it's in this book) that snakes only have an "inner ear" which picks up very little, next to nothing, from the airborne sounds, and basically repeats what I've quoted above.
Cheers | | |
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