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Antegy
at Sat Mar 5 21:35:10 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Antegy ]
Hi everyone,
First I just want to thank everyone who either posted photos here or emailed them to me to help me get info for putting together data for the chart below. I'm still gathering information, so these are just the early results.
I separated the chart into sections for each type of burm morph. I also put my personal data from my burm in chronological order. Keep in mind that I don't have the best photos to work with, so there is some variability in the results, but I think it's good enough to give us a rough idea of the relative differences between the morphs.
The first thing I notice here is that there is a trend with my burm where his head seems to be getting smaller as he gets bigger - or, more accurately, as his body gets bigger his head just isn't keeping up. The good news is that he seems to be right on par with the other morphs, maybe just a little on the small side.
I also noticed, from the photos I had to work with, that it looks like it is typical for a python's body to disproportionately outgrow it's head. Even some of the normal burm photos appeared showed this (the photos of normal burms I got to work with were of very varying size animals, which probaby accounts for the variation in the data).
I would love to gather as much data as possible on this, so if any of you have photos you can share, please do. Again, the best photos to get measurements from are ones that are taken from above, with the whole snake on a level surface and completely in the photo... like this:
Again, thanks to everyone who has helped out so far,
- Mark
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 Some early results regarding Burmese python head size... - Antegy, Sat Mar 5 21:35:10 2005
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