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16 | Pythons and Their Ability to Eat Large Prey with Dr. Daniel Natusch
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Length:
81 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. Dan Natusch is a herpetologist, Director of Epic Biodiversity, and chairman of the IUCN Boa and Python Specialist Group. Dan joins Chris to discuss everything pythons from where you find them in the world, their biogeography in Australia, to the phenomenon of vary color morphs in young Green Tree Pythons. They also discuss an event that has been in the news where a python attempted to eat a person. Dan talks about this particular event as it was one of his study snakes that attempted to eat the woman. They also discuss what about a pythons head allows them to eat such large prey.
Released:
Jan 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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