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rspann wrote:That is thing to make me put up a "for sale" sign.
matix wrote:VII that’s excellent, the passion you and your kid show.
matix wrote:VII that’s excellent, the passion you and your kid show.
RedVEVO wrote:matix wrote:VII that’s excellent, the passion you and your kid show.
He is a bush man .
I like bush tea .
I love the smell of young bush .
VII wrote:have had some really nice looking fake corals in yard also,very friendly snakes..
bluefete wrote:VII wrote:have had some really nice looking fake corals in yard also,very friendly snakes..
Now I know you are not all there. I never met such.
True story: Was doing some re-paving in the yard earlier this year. About 7:15 p.m. one evening, we were waiting for some cement to dry on the ground. There was not much light and suddenly one of the workers saw a movement and ran. I was barefooted. Turned out to be a mapipire z'anana (bushmaster) - one of the 4 poisonous snakes in T&T. Scrambled for a cutlass. Chopped off the head and waited for 30 MINUTES for the body to stop wriggling. My blood crawls up to today. Was I supposed to be friendly with it?
http://www.looptt.com/content/tts-mapep ... geographic
T&T's mapepire featured on National Geographic
LOOP NEWS CREATED : 9 NOVEMBER 2017 LIFESTYLE
One of Trinidad and Tobago's most notorious venomous snakes, known as the 'mapepire zanana', was featured on National Geographic's social media channel earlier this week.
The nature channel shared a video to social media on Wednesday showing the beautiful yet deadly 'bushmaster', as the snake is also known, is so venomous that, if bitten, a human has an approximate survival chance of 25 percent.
See the video below: Go To Link For Video
Bushmasters hunt at night and have heat-sensing pits on each side of their head midway between the nostril and eye, which helps them to locate warm-blooded prey.
National Geographic says the bushmaster has a bite so venomous that humans only have a 25% chance of surviving one.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre advises however that of all the bites by venomous snakes, particularly pit vipers, 25-50 percent do not inject any venom, and the mortality rate is internationally less than one percent for venomous snake bites that are promptly treated, and is quite low in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Centre acknowledges however that venomous snakebites that are not treated by a physician with the proper antivenom may have a much higher mortality rate. It is best to get medical help and avoid local folk remedies.
According to a report by the University of the West Indies, the mapepire zanana/bushmaster or Lachesis muta is a pit viper and is one of four main species of venomous snakes to be found in the wild.
The other three venomous species are the large coral snake (Micrurus lemniscaus diutius), common coral snake (Micrurus circinalis), and Mapepire balsain (also known as 'Fer-de-lance', Latin name Bothrops asper).
The bushmaster is the longest of all viperids. Adults are usually well over 250 cm and weigh three to five kilogrammmes, with some of the longest measuring approximately 350 cm.
The snake can be found in primary forests, often living near large buttressed trees or adjacent to fallen trees and occasionally found in secondary forested areas recently cleared or adjacent to virgin forest. The snake is most commonly found on high, well-drained ground with deep ravines.
Now I know you are not all there. I never met such.
Hyperion wrote:Is the small one a mapapire? Especially seeing that this is Maraval/Paramin..........
Redress10 wrote:Do they get this big here or is this a distant central american cousin?
Embed please someone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsR0ZnZHJY
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Talk to meh
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VII wrote:Hyperion wrote:Is the small one a mapapire? Especially seeing that this is Maraval/Paramin..........
Nah it was another snail eating snake..I know my pic was blury, but to the untrained eye even this one is a mapipere...
*oh and it's in the West..
Redress10 wrote:Do they get this big here or is this a distant central american cousin?
Embed please someone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsR0ZnZHJY
rspann wrote:VII wrote:Hyperion wrote:Is the small one a mapapire? Especially seeing that this is Maraval/Paramin..........
Nah it was another snail eating snake..I know my pic was blury, but to the untrained eye even this one is a mapipere...
*oh and it's in the West..
Glencoe have big snakes because of the forests and ravines. Right next door in Goodwood park have one of the biggest snakes. It only dangerous to UNC people though. Manning warned us about it.
VII wrote:shake d livin wake d dead wrote:shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Talk to meh
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Wah go..
VII wrote:Redress10 wrote:Do they get this big here or is this a distant central american cousin?
Embed please someone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsR0ZnZHJY
The largest viper and second largest venomous snake in the world after the king cobra is the 'Bushmaster' /Mapipere Zanana.and yes we have them here,my brother killed many on a new piece of land he bought in a trace in Manzan/Rioclaro area..forget the name of the area..but he mentioned the pronounce orange scales and aggressiveness and just called them mapiperes.. but he did't know he was dealing with one of the deadliest and notorious snakes in the world..
We also have the longest/heaviest species of snake in the world the anaconda, pythons may be a bit longer generally but half the mass and girth...but there have been reports of anacondas as long as or longer than the longest recorded pythons....so while the average big python may be longer there are anacondas longer..
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Talk to meh
88sins wrote:VII wrote:Redress10 wrote:Do they get this big here or is this a distant central american cousin?
Embed please someone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YGsR0ZnZHJY
The largest viper and second largest venomous snake in the world after the king cobra is the 'Bushmaster' /Mapipere Zanana.and yes we have them here,my brother killed many on a new piece of land he bought in a trace in Manzan/Rioclaro area..forget the name of the area..but he mentioned the pronounce orange scales and aggressiveness and just called them mapiperes.. but he did't know he was dealing with one of the deadliest and notorious snakes in the world..
We also have the longest/heaviest species of snake in the world the anaconda, pythons may be a bit longer generally but half the mass and girth...but there have been reports of anacondas as long as or longer than the longest recorded pythons....so while the average big python may be longer there are anacondas longer..
not according to some local "experts"
I remember as a younger fella about 20+ years ago, had some animals just go missing. We thought either ppl teef dem or they buss rope and walk away.
one fine morning about 2 o'clock moms wake me up, and I hearing WWIII in the pens and having to go investigate only to find one bigb ass 28+" fella crushing a saanen ram.
and lemme tell you from now, chopping that is failure. hadda stab it, with a sharp blade with good point behind the head to sever the spine or in the brain. don't ask me how I kno.
btw, a properly seasoned slow roasted anaconda does eat real nice. plenty bone but if it big d bone is not a problem once you remember to take yuh time and eat from the side.
again don't ask me how I kno.
I gone yes!
VII wrote:shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Talk to meh
Looks like a juvenile boa/macajuel..how big was it ?
Patterns on dorsal area looking a lil cat-eyed snake though ..head looking like a boa.. it has a kinda python-ish pattern all the way over the head ,kinda throwing me off a lil bit yes..something about that dorsal pattern a lil off from our macajuel..and it can't be a cat-eyed because of the head patterns and shape size etc..If it's local it's most likely a local boa with some blotches rather than the more distinct symmetrical patterning or a rat-snake at too close of a distance for size perspective,many small snakes look huge and a bit ambiguous in very close shots,size perspective helps with identifying species too because they could have similar shaped heads and patterns but one grows to 20 inches and the other 10 feet, a small coral looks like a fat cobra close-up pics..they're related,as with other species..
If not local and on the bigger snake side,it could be a slightly different boa or even a python..
VII wrote:now you quoting mapiperes out of context,which even my smallest kid knows it's one of the most aggressive snakes in the world..