I'm working on a 'cultural ecology' of the carpet/diamond python (Morelia spilota) at present, which is fascinating. I've been searching newspapers from the early 1800s through to the 1950s to understand how this species of python which so often comes into contact with humans, has been 'imagined', thought about, written about. Anyway, I thought I should put together a little gallery of some of the carpet pythons we have seen on our place. Now this one is a bit of a cheat shot - it was taken in 2009 about 100km west of our place. Lovely big snake though, just sunning itself along the edge of the road.
This very beautiful individual sunned itself amongst the pumpkin vine which grew in the compound between the shed and the garage.
This one was the first to discover the chooks. A lovely brown colouration with creamy blotches.
The same snake as above.
This was the chook killer which ate two chooks in January/February 2013. It's also the biggest python I've seen here.
probably the same python as the one that first found our chooks. It's belly is big but probably just with a rat or small bandicoot.
This was a very long python which we found digesting a bandicoot, judging by the bulge in its belly. We saw it a couple of more times but I'm pretty sure we found this one dead a few years ago in the boys' paddock in the middle of winter. It had lost so much condition and may have had a major worm infestation (I didn't open it up to have a look).
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