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Black-headed Python (Aspidites melanocephalus), family Pythonidae, Barkly Tablelands, NT, Australia
photograph by Jesse’s Wildlife
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A pair of black-headed pythons (Aspidites melanocephalus) mating in Kimberly, Western Australia
by Melissa Bruton
#black headed python#pythons#snakes#reptiles#aspidites melanocephalus#aspidites#pythonidae#serpentes#squamata#reptilia#chordata#wildlife: australia#wildlife: oceania
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Athena showing off why black-headed pythons are one of my favorite species of snake. That pattern! 🤤 🔥
#girl got herself tangled up a bit#but she good#black-headed python#aspidites#athena#my pets#black headed python#python#snake#reptile
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whats the difference between a viper and python ?
Important question, thank you for asking! Those are two of the major snake families; I know you only asked about two, but I'll discuss the big ones!
Pythons are a family of non-venomous constrictors. They're primitive snakes, meaning they have less stretchy skulls than modern families and they still have the vestigial remnants of a pelvic girdle. Pythons all have heat pits (except for the two members of the genus Aspidites) and those pits are set into the scales on their lips. Ball pythons, Burmese pythons, and rock pythons are all examples of snakes in the python family!
Boas are also non-venomous, primitive constrictors, and are closely related to pythons. They're distinguished, though, by having a couple fewer bones in their skulls and less teeth. When they have heat pits, they're between the scales instead of in them, and they're generally ovoviviparous and give live birth instead of laying eggs. Boa constrictors, anacondas, and rainbow boas are examples of this family!
Vipers are modern, venomous snakes. They have fewer bones in their skulls and less teeth than boas and pythons, and they lack vestigial pelvic girdles. Vipers tend to have primarily hemotoxic venom, and they're often heavy-bodied. When they have heat pits, they're located on their cheeks. Their fangs are hinged and swing out. Rattlesnakes, tree vipers, sand vipers, and copperheads are all members of the viper family!
Elapids are modern, venomous snakes who tend to have primarily neurotoxic venom. They tend to be diurnal and more slender than vipers, and lack heat pits. Their fangs are always set into position. Cobras, mambas, and sea snakes are members of the elapid family!
Colubrids are a large family of modern snakes. Most colubrids are non-venomous, and those who aren't are rear-fanged venomous, with a less sophisticated venom delivery system than elapids and vipers. They're a very diverse family of snakes! Hognose snakes, garter snakes, watersnakes, and ratsnakes are examples of colubrids!
There are other snake families, but those five are the really big ones. Understanding the differences means you also understand a lot of the commonalities and distinctions between common snakes!
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because i need to ramble about my MCs' links between Hogwarts Legacy, Mystery and maybe Magic Awakened, here's the lore i've come up with. feel free to ignore, this is mostly me talking to myself.
Known characters (MCs and in game family)
Hogwarts Legacy : Arcas Highridge
The OG, considered the first of the bloodline. He has a mysterious background, though it's certain he's not muggleborn. He has no links with his parents, are they dead? did they kick him out? he never talked about it to anyone so... we don't know. The future generations view him as the founder of their House.
He started the naming tradition of using animals' latin/scientific names. His doesn't entirely fits but he's the first so he's allowed. "Arcas" comes from the greek myth of Callisto who was a hunter of Artemis who was rrrr by Zeus and gave birth to a son (Arcas) before being turned into a bear. Once grown up, the son became a hunter and would have killed his mother if Zeus hadn't turned him into a bear too and placed them both in the sky as constellations. So yeah the notion of animal inspired names is still present with him.
Hogwarts Mystery : Peregrine Highridge
HM's MC's father, whose name comes from Falco Peregrinus, fastest bird on Earth. In the game he's a pretty shitty father (and human being in general). In my lore it's because his line and in general his family has always been composed of witches and wizards with extraordinary abilities and/or accomplishments.
This led him to seek greatness in order to be worthy of his name and heritage, especially as a youngest child. He also had extremely high expectations of his first born, Jacob. Jacob's disappearance made Peregrine feel as if he had to compensate for his son's failure at greatness, thus abandonning his second child who was still very young.
Hogwarts Mystery : Jacob Highridge
Since Jacob didn't fit my naming convention, i decided that he goes by his middle name (inherited from a relative on his mother's side). Peregrine having a narcissistic side, he named his first son after himself in a way. See, Peregrinus is an umbrella taxon, so he just went with one of the subspecies of peregrine falcons. Therefore in my head, Jacob's full name is actually Tundrius Jacob Highridge.
Going by his middle name really pissed off Jacob's father but since the boy always refused to respond when being called by his first name, Peregrine had to yield and use his son's middle name.
Hogwarts Mystery : Rook Highridge
My HM main character's full name is actually Calidus Corvus Highridge. Trying to avoid another Jacob situation, Peregrine had given his second son not one but two latin names. "Calidus" after another Peregrinus subspecies and "Corvus" after his own eldest brother.
Jacob, hating both of these, decided to find a proper name and got inspired by his brother's middle name. After devouring the old encyclopaedia his father had probably used, he finally found it. Corvus Frugilegus was (still is, not extinct) a kind of big crow found between Scandinavia and eastern Siberia, commonly known as "Rook". Unlike Jacob, Rook doesn't mind his birth name as much and tolerates being called Calidus in formal settings or with strangers.
Magic Awakened : Artamus Highridge
Artamus, named after small bird Woodsallow, is Jacob's first child and has a muggleborn mother. His parents met as Jacob took some time away from the magical world to heal from all the trauma he endured because of magic, and his mother was visiting her muggle parents.
I don't have much on him yet since i've only just started Magic Awakened.
More family members i hope will appear future games :
- Antaresia and Aspidites Highridge (for a HL sequel perhaps) : named after python subspecies, twin children of Arcas Highridge. They have a younger brother, Corallus, who is Jacob and Rook's grandfather.
- Luscinia Highridge : named after the common nightingale, daughter of Rook Highridge. I'd love to give her life in a game set in the 2010's.
- anyone from the american branch (see tree).
Random stuff and trivia about the family bc i have too much free time and a lil bit of brainrot :
- i used a random name generator for the family name. i already had ideas for the first names being based on animals but nothing for the last name.
- though there are mentions of "House Highridge" in a few historical records, they are not a Pureblood house as many married half-bloods, muggleborns and even muggles. they are still well respected among the wizarding families since many of them accomplished great things and/or showed great magical abilities.
- they are a very young House with only 5 known generations so far (6 for the american branch) but given how many of its members have had extraordinary destinies and/or abilities, they quickly acquired an excellent status in the wizarding world.
- they are open to half bloods and muggleborns and don't really care about muggles. unlike many Pureblood houses, they don't bother hating muggles and believe that true greatness lies in actions rather than birth.
- they still believe wizardkind to be superior to mugglekind, which is also why they don't hate muggles : there is no need to hate what is far beneath you. they do however forbid marriage with muggles. muggleborn is ok, but not muggle. Morelia Highridge was kicked out and disowned for falling in love with a muggle. Her son earned a spot on the tree after saving the life of his uncle Corvus, then head of the family. His descendence would not be recorded though, since he didn't bear the name Highridge.
- they are extremely attached to their family identity. Even Jacob who hated his latin name followed the naming tradition for his children as a tribute to all the other great people in his family (poor guy really just hated his dad. he rejected the idea of being named after him, not necessarily the tradition itself).
- although the naming tradition theoretically encompasses all animals, all members after Arcas himself were named after birds or snakes.
- i imagine the home dynamic to be similar to House Black's just take out the anti-muggle racism and pureblood obsession. the rest is pretty much the same.
- almost all of them were in Slytherin but a few occasional Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs can be found in the family tree. No Highridge has been to Gryffindor yet.
- the family has only one marriage between cousins. Antaresia's only child Melidora and Corallus' eldest son Corvus were at the root of the American branch of the family (this is purely in case a game about Ilvermorny ever comes out, so i can easily incorporate my character into the lore).
i definitely have too much free time and severe brainrot but i made a family tree
recording of the descendence of women who married out and thus do not bear the name anymore stops after the first generation (so the direct children).
i'll stop here but i'll probably ramble more later about them bc im developping an obsession
#hogwarts mystery#hogwarts legacy#magic awakened#harry potter#not me becoming obsessed with a family I CAME UP WITH#but this is fun and i discovered so many animals#is it excessive to come up with lore and a family tree just to connect 3 OCs from videogames?
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"A PICNIC TABLE?" DUDE please like just look at it and blur your eyes a bit maybe you'll see or maybe youre too used to what is ACTUALLY in the picture 😭 i really went and sentenced myself to public blast for that
retaliation! before i go to sleep I will bombard you with all random questions that come to me in this ask
what's your preferred time of day and why? most reliable water sources? how do you usually deal with most common threats you encounter in the bush? which kind of snake would you call the least dangerous? if you could forever abolish one animal from existence, which would it be, if any? best fish? worst fish?
thank you (for reading, answering, remaining fascinated and being my curious ass' main source of giddy leg wiggle during the day)
- most annoyingly, 🧀 anon <3 💥💥💥
Thank you for asking, cheeseanon!!! I really enjoy these. I normally live out in the bush and even in California I live in a rural area so I don't have many neighbours (and those that do know me as that Weird Aussie Bloke that disappeared for 3 years).
What's your preferred time of day and why?
Night! Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night. I absolutely love the stars. My second-favourite time of day is dawn when the kookaburras wake up.
Most reliable water sources?
There's no reliable water sources in the Outback. I collect my water from rain tarps (which I can drink straight) and clear streambeds (which I have to boil before drinking). I have one canteen specifically for collecting water and another for carrying purified water when I'm travelling. Sometimes soakage from native wells is the only way of obtaining water but I've only had to do this a few times.
How do you usually deal with common threats out in the bush?
Staying in Matilda/under shelter during the hottest parts of the day, since the environment itself is the greatest threat in the Outback. As far as living threats go, it usually involves screaming. I've run my voice hoarse through shouting at dingos because they very much hate noise and are generally skittish around people. When necessary I might fire a warning shot into the dirt to make them keep their distance and this usually works. I've only ever had one actually bite me, and that was a lone female with pups (judging by the condition of her teats) who wanted my food. We tussled on the ground for a bit with her teeth locked around my ankle (thank Christ for my leather boots), I cut her foreleg with my knife, and she scurried off. She came back an hour later and decided I was still worth the risk of being killed over, so I took a potshot between her legs to make her keep her distance and chucked her the back half of a rabbit which she scurried off with. Normally I wouldn't recommend feeding the wildlife since it can make them dependent on people which puts people and the animal in danger, but we were in an area with very few humans so it's unlikely she'd ever encounter one again. To her I was a big prey animal and worth the risk to feed her pups. Mutual respect between us and she learned her lesson I reckon.
On the downside, I needed a new pair of jeans because her teeth ripped right through the hem.
What kind of snake would you consider the least dangerous?
The dead kind. That's a joke. Please don't kill snakes, they're really neat and are much more afraid of you than you are of them. Additionally you're much more likely to get bit trying to kill or move a snake than you are just letting him go on his way. I'd reckon that any small nonvenomous snake isn't dangerous. Typically anything in Colubridae is safe. Small, non-dangerous species include:
Green tree snake, Dendrelaphis punctulatus
Common keelback, Tropidonophis mairii
Green tree python, Morelia viridis (they're arseholes though)
Brahminy blind snake, Indotyphlops braminus (invasive)
Woma python, Aspidites ramsayi
Northern green tree snake, Dendrelaphis calligaster
Elephant trunk snake, Acrochordus arafurae (these guys are really neat!)
Pygmy python, Antaresia perthensis
Crab-eating snake, Fordonia leucobalia
Marine file snake, Acrochordus granulatus (really neat)
Bockadam, Cerberus australis
Rough-scaled python, Morelia carinata
Papuan spotted python, Antaresia papuensis
Every blind snake in the genus Anilios
Australia has ~140 species of land snakes and ~30 species of sea snakes. Basically all our sea snakes are highly venomous and can kill you. Of our land snakes, ~100 are venomous. That means roughly 75% of Australian snakes are venomous. That said, the majority of these have venom so insignificant that it can't harm people. Most people won't even realise they've been bitten. So why didn't I count the "harmless" venomous species? People can have allergies! What might bite me and not have any effect could bite you and give you a fatal arrhythmia if you're allergic to the venom. Assume all snakes are dangerous and give them all a wide berth unless you can 100% confirm that they won't harm you. EVERY SNAKE IS THE FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT VARIETY.
If you could abolish any animal from existence, what would it be?
Mozzies. I fucking hate mozzies with a burning passion. They gave my dad malaria twice and nearly killed him the second time. Additionally I'm type O (universal donor) which, just so happens, mozzies fucking love. I get SWARMED. I'm constantly covering myself, my clothes, and Misty in permethrin just to keep ticks off us (and this comes from somebody who fucking hates synthetic chemicals). I don't need to deal with mozzies too.
From an ecological standpoint, FUCKING CARP. I HATE CARP SO GODDAMN MUCH. YOU THINK CANE TOADS ARE BAD? NO! WELL THEY ARE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUCKING WORSE? CARP. THEY HAVE RUINED THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN AND ITS WATERWAYS. WE HAVE LOST 90% OF OUR NATIVE SPECIES' TERRITORY TO INVASIVE FUCKING CARP. IMAGINE THAT. THE SANCTITY OF AUSTRALIA, OUR AMAZING MURRAY COD, LOST TO FUCKING GOLDFISH. I HATE CARP WITH A BURNING FUCKING PASSION OH MY GOD DON'T EVEN GET ME FUCKING STARTED--
Best fish?
Barramundi. I fucking love barra. They're delicious, they're incredibly fun to catch, they're absolutely massive so I guarantee you'll not go hungry. I love barra.
Worst fish?
FUCKING CARP.
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Hey! Welcome to my blog!
m Fen and I go by they/them but I don't mind it/its or xe/xem. I'm a reptile nerd! I talk about reptiles here.
I have a fascination for all reptiles, but especially lizards in the Pogona family and snakes in the Aspidites family.
Don't be afraid to ask questions! I don't bite. Just please keep them reptile related.
Obligatory DNI if: Homophobic, transphobic (including TERFs), ableist, racist, and/or sexist. Standard stuff.
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Day 8 of #SerpSept22 - Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi)
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Black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus) at Daly Waters in the Northern Territory of Australia
Jesse Campbell
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I feel like she has resting “sick of your shit”-face. She is a sweetheart though - or at least, she’s a sweetheart when she’s not trying to eat anything she can reach ahaha.
Rosetta, 2015 Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi)
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Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi), family Pythonidae, Western Australia
photograph by Ryan Francis
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She's suspicious of us 100% of the time but she's very lovely despite eating her meals backward almost every time without fail.
#snake#snakes#woma#woma python#python#reptiblr#reptile#ramsay's python#aspidites ramsayi#endangered#pretty#noodle#danger noodle#sand python
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Aegis
Female Woma Python
#woma python#aspidites ramsayi#from a fiesty girl to one of my chillest snakes#snakes#snake#reptiles#my pets#aegis
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wait are woma pythons associated with the spider complex? or is there a morph called "woma"?
Ball pythons have a morph called woma! It's a confusing name and I do not care much for it. Woma (and the similar hidden gene woma) are ball python morphs in the spider complex; the unrelated woma python (Aspidites ramsayi) is fine.
Woma morph ball pythons are so named because someone (presumably someone who had never seen a woma python in real life, I can only assume) thought the thinner bands on their patterning looked kinda like woma pythons.
Hidden gene womas were originally thought to be woma morph ball pythons (the "hidden gene" part of the name is because they were thought to have a hidden element influencing how the morph turned out when bred to other morphs), but they're actually a different morph but still very much in the spider complex. They look a bit darker.
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Poppy thought I was a food :)
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Aspidites ramsayi
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