Australian Pythons
Pythons
are relatively primitive and were some of the first
snakes to evolve. Rob Bredl makes a study of the snakes
that branded Australia 'The land of the Pythons'. In all
sizes and colours, Rob really gets into a 'pet' topic of
his and drapes himself with these big guns of the snake
world. From 50 centimetres to 6 meters, they are all
constrictors and use this as their means of killing
prey. Rob takes us to an annual bat migration where
Children's pythons find plenty of prey... he takes to
the trees to find the beautiful green python and even a
type named after Rob Bredl's famous snake expert father,
the 'Bredlii'.
Rob searches for answers as to why
they are one of the only predators with colour vision
and how they have adapted so well to a harsh
environment. He shows us how the Python uses both his
scent sense to find rodent tracks and follow them all
the way the burrow and when the python will use
his infra red sensing abilities in tandem with this
sense of smell to track down birds in trees.
AU$ 29.50.- | 
