Article on Brisbane coastals

[Fuscus]

A very interesting but long CSIRO paper on carpets in Brisbane.
Basically they have checked out "problem" animals that people have asked to be removed.
Highlights are :
they found a 1.36 meter reproductive female !
one 1.68 individual ate five love-birds, four quail and two carnaries in a single meal
No princess parrots were eaten by juveniles but two were eaten by adults, making a total of three princess parrots eaten (their maths). If anyone can make sense of table 1 let me know

Its in a pdf format

http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/Shinelab/shine/reprints/302pythonsinthepergola.pdf

 

[dobermanmick]

Thanks i dont know how you find all this stuff fuscus

 

[Hickson]

Fuscus,
Table 1 lists the number of adults and juveniles found with those prey remains. Two adult pythons were found with Princess Parrot remains - obviously one of the snakes ate two Princess Parrots.

Hix

 

[Fuscus]

I'm actually tring to find the article reptile_1989 metioned in another thread.

 

[Fuscus]

And Hix - I love your Russell Coight quote

 

[Hickson]

Yeah, I thought it was appropriate for this forum.