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I was watching him go after a king cobra, he ran into a cave and pulled a big python, he called it a tiger pattern python, or somthing like that. What is that??? Was it a rock python?
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I saw that episode a while back, and vaguely remember that particular snake. It wouldn't be an African rock, and I have heard of Burms and retics both referred to as "tiger pythons", especially because of the tiger retic. If I remember right, though, the snake he caught was either an Indian or a Burm-especially because of locality(might as well be the same snake for TV purposes, especially with someone like Austin doing the talking). I don't know about whether he makes things up, but anybody who jumps into a river to free capture a Gaboon viper, all the while talking about how deadly it is, is a few beers short of a six pack.

I do believe that was a Burmese Python. I'm not 100% sure but i think the common name in europe is the "tiger" python.

I saw that episode too and remember it being an indian python.

While we're bashing Austin Stevens, I have the funniest feeling that all the animals he "captures" seem to be tame cb specimens. Its just a hunch from the way he interacts with them and the seemingly imposible way he'll spot a little old 3 ft tree python 75 ft up a tree or something like that.
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Ya its funny how he will jump right in, for example with that anaconda, and not get bite. I never thought of that. But its true. Also you just goes into a cave and pulls out a python like that without checking first where the head was??
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They all use captive animals i think
My friend was recently in costa rica while corwin was there and he had rented a few snakes from a zoo and was looking for a tame ant eater....she was in costa rica for 2wks and didnt see a single snake...corwin goes out and finds tons of animals...hmm.sounds kinds fishy to me

Kinda like false advertisement ain't it?

NP..........

Yea I have been thinking that they all use captive animals too, but some of those guys I acctually like so I wont believe it about Corwin.
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first, with corwin, I saw a special on him that had some footage of him actually stumbling upon animals (I think one was a rattler), so you know he finds at least some of his animals. I would think that taking cb snakes into the wild for footage wouldn't be a good idea because they would easily escape. I could understand why he might need to do it every now and then though, because he's got bills to pay and such, but I don't think he relies on it at all. It might make you think that they are cb because of the way it seems like he just sort of sees them out of no where, but usually once they see something they will start doing the acting. That's just how it works. The only one I know of that does (or did) the "there's a snake, I'm gonna run after it and try to catch it" thing everytime was Steve Erwin.

Stevens....he's gotten bitten by so many venomous snakes. It's just ridiculous. There were two bites (at least) shown on this one special of his, and he only went to the hospital for treatment for one. Then he came back to the same area messed with the same snake again. i don't know if he uses captive specimens for the "wild" filming, and I don't care...either way he's just an idiot that really does not much more than give the hobby a bad name. He's a crocodile hunter wannabe, but without all of the good qualities.

I remember the first episodes of crocodile hunter...those were the best. Now it's too commercialized. I think I even heard that he is planning on doing live shows in vegas or something.

It is pretty hard to take his "catches" seriously after the anaconda episode. When he is "wrestling" the anaconda, the camera does a "Matrix" type spin around him and the snake. The only way to accomplish this is with a multiple camera setup. The show is about as real as a WWE match.

Doug

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Europeans refer to Burmese pythons as "Tiger pythons". I have seen the name used on German and Eastern European web sites. On German herp pages, Retics are called, "Netzpythons" (net python?).

Doug