any taipan owners here?
post some pics up of your taipans!
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taipan owners
pseudonaja
May 20, 2003 08:22 PM
Replies (9)
Scott Eipper
May 22, 2003 04:56 AM
Hi Pseudonaja,
I have both inlands and Coastals, however I am somewhat uneducated in the arts of picture posting photos of my Tai's are on the shhs website.
Regards,
Scott
rayhoser
May 22, 2003 06:45 AM
This is one of Scott's critters
BUT -
I own the rock!!!!
New Taipan from WA
rayhoser
May 22, 2003 06:47 AM
This is one Mitey snake!
Taipan Taxonomy
eunectus
Jun 08, 2003 06:09 AM
how do you find them scott, perhaps you could email me on pete@bigsnakes.co.uk, I have mambas, and I would like to get a taipan but would like some advice.
Scott Eipper
Jun 25, 2003 04:24 AM
Pete,
I all honesty probably one of the easiest elapids to keep of the Australian species with the exceptions of Pseudechis and Notechis.
My snakes as a rule a not "headed" and handled very gently allowing for minimum stress to the snake.
They are however very fast, can be nervous and when defensive they can strike faster and are very accurate than most elapids.
Coastals a snap release and very agile while inlands are chewers and slower...more like a Pseudonaja.
Hope thing helps,
I am told they are similar to black Mambas but I have never seen one in the flesh let alone handled them
Regards,
Scott Eipper
oxyuranus
May 25, 2003 02:42 AM
>>any taipan owners here?
>>post some pics up of your taipans!
G'day all,
The following two pictures show just how a female Papuan taipan goes about expressing her opinion about papparazzi following her around ...
If you see this image in your viewfinder, you KNOW you are about to have a VERY BAD DAY ...
and if you stick around after that long enough (about 1/60th second actually) to see this image ...
then maybe it is time you changed your shorts ... 
Cheers
David
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David Williams
PNG Snake Venom Research Project
PO Box 168
Port Moresby, NCD, PNG.
Ferdelance_1
May 25, 2003 08:26 PM
I would think she's putting on a "Happy Face": depicted in the first image. The second image is self explanatory ! ! !
Cheers,
Derek K.
WW
May 29, 2003 03:21 AM
>>I would think she's putting on a "Happy Face":
She is. Happy, as in "Go on, punk, make my day!"
Or, more likely in the case of a taipan, "You've just made my day".
Cheers,
Wolfgang
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WW
oxyuranus
May 30, 2003 07:58 PM
Hi again all,
A few more pics to brighten everyone's day. The subject is a 2.5 metre male Papuan taipan...
First of all check out these pointy bits ...
On with the job ...
Check out the yield ... a massive 800 microlitres!!
And I thought only babies drooled ... 
This is one of the nicest looking Papuan taipans I've caught ... check out the eyes and the salmon-coloured ventrals!
Cheers
David
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David Williams
PNG Snake Venom Research Project
PO Box 168
Port Moresby, NCD, PNG.
