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31-Aug-04, 09:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Withcott | | | Cool pics from 1988 GEO Magazine
Here are some cool pics I found in a 1988 GEO magazine (March-May 1988 Volume 10 Number1) from an article about a cave near the summit of Mount Etna on QLD's central coast. The bats are little bent-wings. In the article it list the snake as being a childrens python (Liasis childreni), when it is obviously a maccie (Liasis or Antersia(sp) maculosus and that some specimens were 2.5m long  . I can understand the name being wrong because of the time but since when have maccies been able to get up to 2.5m? Love the frogs 
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31-Aug-04, 09:49 PM
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31-Aug-04, 09:50 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | Good pics |
31-Aug-04, 09:55 PM
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31-Aug-04, 10:01 PM
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31-Aug-04, 10:03 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | I doubt if the frog would have been sucessful |
31-Aug-04, 10:07 PM
| | Has Happy Herps.... Sponsor | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: SYDNEY | | | | Mybe not Fuscus but he certainly sorted the snake out. It is usually the other way round, snake eats frog not frog eats snake.
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31-Aug-04, 11:26 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | LOl cool pics! Go kermit. .....It would have spat the python, coulda kept the bat down tho.
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01-Sep-04, 12:16 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Back in 1988 all Childrens Pythons were known as Liasis childreni. Maculosus was not a recognised species back then. As for the 2.5 metres mentioned, that would be referring to the Carpet Pythons that also prey on the Bats at Mt Etna. The writer has the 2 species confussed. |
01-Sep-04, 08:40 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Brisbane | | | | great pics I remember them well so lond ago, the frog by the way couldnt swallow the python and spat it out, |
01-Sep-04, 08:55 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | At 2.5 meteres for the snake that frog must be massive.
Im scared.
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01-Sep-04, 09:20 AM
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but great pics!!!!!!
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01-Sep-04, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by bigguy Back in 1988 all Childrens Pythons were known as Liasis childreni. Maculosus was not a recognised species back then. As for the 2.5 metres mentioned, that would be referring to the Carpet Pythons that also prey on the Bats at Mt Etna. The writer has the 2 species confussed. | you might find Bob that both species were know back then as Bothrochilus childreni and Bothrochilus maculosus. Mirtchin (1992), Gow(1989), cogger (1992), ehman(1992) and wilson and knowles (198 had the n accepted Smiths division of the childreni complex. Devided into three species childreni, maculosus and stimsoni all under Bothrochilus, however perthensis (anthill/pigmy childrens python) were wrongely thourght to be either childreni or stinsoni |
01-Sep-04, 09:33 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | | It says the python is 1 meter Peter. Frog would be an adult, up to 12-14cm. :wink:
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01-Sep-04, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Bryony i feel sorry for the bats......
but great pics!!!!!! | The bats in those caves breed like mice and rats.
Do you feel sorry for the rats at feeding time? or for the ones that you so calously cut the eyes out of for research?? :wink:
LMAO
Cheers, Alan.
P.s, this is a joke post Bry, im just geeing you up, not having a go at ya.  | | |
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