Only in Australia! My granddaughter, 5, examining the slough of a python!
My daughter's neighbor from the house next door came over to show my grandkids the shed skin of his pet, Monty the Python.
You can see the place of the snake's eye at the bottom. Enlarge the photo for an even better look.
The neighbor said his snake sloughs off the outer layer of skin about once a month.
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(Linking to Camera Critters.)
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whoa
ReplyDeleteQuite impressive! I remember touching one of these- a boa constrictor- at an event here some months back.
ReplyDeleteSo, they keep pythons in lieu of cats?
ReplyDeleteit is very interesting to touch the skin of snake
ReplyDeleteOnce a month - wow - that's a lot of sloughing off! Lucky Monty, he gets a new skin every month. Maybe next month the neighbor will let them watch Monty in action as he sheds it. It must be quite a process.
ReplyDeleteThat is going to be one huge snake !!! I got over my fear of snakes by letting one wrap itself aroung my arm, Dina
ReplyDeleteSnakes(even discarded skin), frogs and birds I choose not to handle.
ReplyDeleteLike lace! I had no idea snakes sloughed their skin so often.
ReplyDeleteMy younger son, while in high school, had a ball python as a pet. (ugh) I asked him how fast "Fop" would grow. "Oh, about an inch a mouse." :-)
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