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Tom Charlton
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| Subject: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis  Mon 23 Apr - 17:45 | |
| Back in January, whilst passing through South Australia, I was offered the chance to view the pair of central ranges taipans, Oxyuranus temporalis, currently housed off-show at Adelaide Zoo. This was the pair collected back in October 2010 during a joint survey between the WA museum, Museum Victoria and Adelaide Zoo. For anyone who may have missed it in the news, here's a link to one many newspaper articles covering the story: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/rare-taipans-found-in-was-great-victorian-desert-head-to-adelaide-zoo/story-e6frg19l-1225950876057 Unfortunately, with the pair still in quarantine, the circumstances didn't allow for a good photo session, but I was able to get a few shots when the male was removed from his enclosure for cleaning. He was looking quite dark in colouration but I was informed that, like inland taipans, this species will change colour depending on the time of year. You will see in the photos from the news article that they were looking a lot brighter at the time of collection.   thanks, Tom
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| | | | David Nixon
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Mon 23 Apr - 17:50 | |
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| | | | Tim Hallam
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Location : Nottingham,UK
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Mon 23 Apr - 19:10 | |
| fabulous , are they as nervous as Coastal's or more sedate like Inland's? and before anybody remarks I know both species can be either I'm just generalising cheers. | |
| | | | Tom Charlton
Snakekeeper
Number of posts : 68
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Location : England
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Tue 24 Apr - 16:39 | |
| - Tim Hallam wrote:
- fabulous , are they as nervous as Coastal's or more sedate like Inland's? and before anybody remarks I know both species can be either I'm just generalising cheers.
Hi Tim, Considering the pair are wild-caught, the male was relatively well behaved - certainly not as twitchy as most coastal or new guinea taipans. The female seemed to be more nervous, but I didn't see her outside of her enclosure. thanks, Tom | |
| | | | Tim Hallam
Snakekeeper
Number of posts : 53
Age : 57
Location : Nottingham,UK
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Registration date : 2010-05-11
| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Tue 24 Apr - 19:16 | |
| cheers Tom
you must have felt privileged to have seen them.
regards Tim. | |
| | | | Piero Moroni
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Tue 24 Apr - 23:44 | |
| It's a beautiful snake, but personally I find so impressive  | |
| | | | Ronald Streeter
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Location : California
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Wed 20 Jun - 17:12 | |
| Thank you for the pictures! Those beauties should have been in a "gold-lined" quarantine bucket. J/K | |
| | | | Paul Hermann
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Location : France
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Fri 4 Mar - 23:18 | |
| Thank you for those pictures, this snake looks interesting, I hope we will get to learn more about it in the future.
Regards P | |
| | | | Rafał Broński
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Location : Poland
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| | Subject: Re: Central Ranges Taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis Mon 7 Mar - 4:29 | |
| Beautiful snake amazing and it is the most toxic land snake venom known to science, great respect for you. Congratulations.
Regards.
Raphael. | |
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