Animal Spotlight: Spotted Pythons
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- It's been a little while since I last highlighted one of the animals living here, but the interim between available wildlife videos is a perfect time to bring to you one of the smallest pythons in the world.
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Cute when he came close to the camera to investigate!
Antaresia is among my favourite snake genera. Unfortunately, it is very hard to come by in Europe. They seem like the rosy boas of the python world.
i like the size of them compared to most pythons lol. A shoot yea, Europe has a lot of restrictions too doesnt it? I know Spain does, partially because of climate at least. Can you import internationally?
@@jessereichbach588 it isn’t due to restrictions, you can just drive to Central Europe and find them, although a few people keep them. Most of the people are about ball pythons. But there is a lot of diversity hidden in collections in Germany. But if you are at the edge of Europe, like for example Greece, it isn’t easy. What is about Spain? They are quite active against reptiles and quite in favor of animal rights as I have read. They have messed up the kingsnake for the rest of Europe, that isn’t at fault. Is this true? Can you keep anything there?
@@stefanostokatlidis4861 Oh I am in the US. But from everything I have heard, a lot of breeds are banned or restricted in Spain though yea. I thought even Ball pythons are restricted in Spain. Sound like they are extra restrictive though yea.
Ive heard snake owners speak positively about "good eaters" with an aggressive food response. Wouldn't that normally be one of the traits you would try to breed out of a line rather than a trait to select?
Just with the very loose "domestication" process, that is usually the case. Not that pythons are going to become puppies or goldfish. But is food aggression necessary for snakes for some reason? Or lizards in general?
Historically, it has been thought that an aggressive food response means the animal will make babies that are more easy to feed and therefore healthier, easier to sell etc., however snakes can be good feeders and have offspring that are good feeders without going crazy after food (just takes a little more finesse learning which animals are actually showing the best mix of traits). And, one can work towards animals that have very strong responses to food, but are smart enough to distinguish between actual food, and hands. Unfortunately, the damage is already done in a lot of lines because a lot of breeders, especially large-scale breeders, went the lazy profitable easy-feed route rather than the long-term beneficial "best overall animal" route. Hence why my two spotteds are sometimes little monsters, both of my common kings are problematic to hold, and possibly the bullsnake may also be in that category. Examples of animals that I have that have a very, very strong food response but don't have handler-recognition problems: both of my bigger pythons, the house snakes, the ratsnakes, my gray-banded kingsnakes, ladder snake and San Diego gopher, so it can be had.
Whether reptiles can actually be "domesticated" is an entirely different topic, and dependent on the exact details of that term one tries to use...because half a generation in the wild would turn pretty much every reptile back into a fully wild animal, nothing's really set in terms of them needing people or doing better with people around.
@ncarnivores ah makes a lot of sense. Turning anything into a large scale industry tends to lead to cutting corners. It stinks yea.
And yea right now id say they are only "temporarily domesticated: in that sense. Maybe in another 500 years, if we keep these lines going though, that could be a different story haha. I am so curious what else we will create in that sense. Totally pro hybridization. As long as someones keeping track of lines.
glad the larget pythons and the problem haha