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The ball python (Python regius), also called the royal python, is a python species native to West and Central Africa, where it lives in grasslands, shrublands and open forests. This nonvenomous constrictor is the smallest of the African pythons, growing to a maximum length of 182 cm (72 in). [ 2 ]
This is a list of all extant genera, species, and subspecies of the snakes of the family Pythonidae, otherwise referred to as pythonids or true pythons.It follows the taxonomy currently provided by ITIS, [1] which is based on the continuing work of Roy McDiarmid [2] and has been updated with additional recently described species.
Python anchietae may grow up to 183 cm (6 ft) in total length (including tail). The color pattern is a reddish-brown to brown to almost black ground, overlaid with irregular white or cream-colored bands and spots. The belly is yellowish. A rare species seldom seen in the wild or in captivity, it is the only python to have "bead-like" head ...
Poaching of pythons is a lucrative business with the global python skin trade being an estimated US$1 billion as of 2012. [18] Pythons are poached for their meat, mostly consumed locally as bushmeat and their skin, which is sent to Europe and North America for manufacture of accessories like bags, belts and shoes. [ 19 ]
An axanthic green frog (Lithobates clamitans). Axanthism is most common in species of Ranidae. Yellow-collared lovebirds (Agapornis personatus) are a good example of the effects of axanthism. The feathers that would be normally green are blue, and the feathers that would be yellow are white.
The Central African rock python is in the genus Python, large constricting snakes found in the moist tropics of Asia and Africa. P. sebae was first described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, a German naturalist, in 1789. [3] Therefore, he is also the taxon author of the species.
The film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl also contains a performance of this sketch, with Chapman as the Inspector and Terry Gilliam as his assistant. The assistant is now called Constable Parrot, and while he too periodically leaves the room to fight off his nausea, he remains onstage during his last attack of sickness and vomits into his helmet—which his superior then orders him to ...
Chocolat dancing in a bar, lithography by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896.. Rafael Padilla (ca. 1865/68 – 4 November 1917), known professionally as Chocolat, was a clown who performed in a Paris circus around the 1900s.