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Monday, February 8, 2010

"Now you see him, now you don't!" "Before, and after".





The title is a joke, of course. :)
I could further joke that the guy is an avid researcher, member of several herpetological societies. He wrestles with his python once a month, so that's his Mont(hl)y Python. 
The lower image shows his Full...Python. Full of food.

Joking aside, the upper image shows a young boa, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snake,_Jersey_Zoo.jpg and the bottom shows an 8 meter-long sucuri from Pantanal, Brazil. That's a special boa, called anaconda - green anaconda, in this case. 
In the belly of the beast is a capybara, the world's largest rodent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara.

"Eunectes murinus (derived from the Greek "Ευνήκτης" meaning "good swimmer" and the Latin "murinus" translated into "he who predates on mice") is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. It is the most massive of all known snake species".
"Primarily aquatic, they eat a wide variety of prey, almost anything they can manage to overpower, including fishbirds, a variety of mammals, and other reptiles. Particularly large anacondas may even consume large prey such as tapirdeercapybarajaguarsblack caiman, and crocodiles, but such large meals are not regularly consumed"

I especially like that lower image, an actual postcard from Brazil. Someday, I'll create a maximum card, with a matching stamp.
Here are a few anaconda stamps:


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