#python bivittatus

If Silly Sleeping was an Olympic discipline, Sunny would win the gold.

Researchers compared reticulated pythons (Malayopython reticulatus), pictured, and Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) farmed at commercial python farms in Thailand and Vietnam.

HERE SHE IS!!

Everyone meet Locus, my first Burmese python and first "giant" period!! She's a 2019 female green het granite 66% ph albino. She seems smaller than I'd expect for being nearly a yearling (if the seller posted the correct info on MM, her hatchday is July 6th), but her overall body tone looks good and she seems healthy upon first impressions. Only thing that worries me is this little mark up near her neck;

No idea what it is. Almost looks like she could have been bit by a mouse or something, but she's supposed to be eating F/T prey. I'll be asking the seller about it here shortly.

And damn is this little girl chatty! I know burms are noisy, but Locus sounded like a tea kettle with how much she was hissing when I pulled her bag out of the box! No bites or strikes though.

A Burmese python in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Along with the venomous lionfish, the Burmese python is perhaps the least welcome invasive species in the state; lacking any natural predators, it has happily chomped its way through Florida’s wildlife.

Photograph: Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images

Sniffing the hand that feeds.