No, the rock is not a burmese. Sometimes burmese are refered to as burmese rock pythons is all. But they are a different species, from a different continent altogether.



Rock pythons are very widely misunderstood. People often expect them to be similar to a burmese, but they are entirely different. When one understands the differences then one can better deal with a rock. Sure, they can be aggressive. But not all of them. Just like a few burms are mean as hell. But I would venture to say that most rocks would *appear* to be aggressive. I say this because they tend to demonstrate a lot of bluff and intimidation. They can be very territorial with their cages/environment and will bluff one that comes near it or in it. Take the same snake out and it's calm as a kitten and once again mostly indifferent. The males can be exceedingly territorial and they often put on a huge show of hissing and posturing in a strike position. But it usually means little or nothing. It's all bluff. I theorize that being from africa they evolved in a land infested with ENORMOUS animals of every type [elephants, rhinos, girafes, hippos, lions, leopards, wildebeasts, cape buffalo, cheetahs, primates, babboons, crocodiles, etc, etc, etc] and that this loud, demonstrative posturing or show of power and intimidation may keep these otherwise harmfull animals at bay. In other words, evolutionarily speaking,.. the ones that did this throughout the last 20 million years survived the eons and passed the trait that gives them the tendency to be threatening when approached. Man! That one is hard to explain. But did I make any sense? I'll ty again if I failed. But the point is,.. no,. the thing mostly mistaken for outright aggression is all bluff that is deeply ingrained in their instinct, for self preservation. ..... (whew!)



All in all though,. african rocks are incredibly complex and interesting snakes. And I would like to be able to bring them to peoples' attention that don't already know about them, OR have the wrong idea about them.





>>The anacondas have one and that forum is dead. I go in there just like you said to read about things that I dont have. I have not seen a new post in a week and the one I did see was someone just saying it was dead, it cant be any slower than that. I don't mind them posting things in here. I thought that the Rock python was also a burm, at least thats what I got from the animal planet on that big sqeeze thing or big joke thing I should say. Is that correct that that Rocks are also burms they called them burmese rock pythons???

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>>Are Rocks really that aggressive or does it depend on the individual, i have heard more stories about Rocks than anything.
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