An Adelaide snake owner had to take his python for emergency medical treatment after the animal swallowed a set of barbecue tongs that were being used to feed him a rat. Winston, a Woma python ...

Woma pythons are large, nocturnal snakes with few predators while taipan snakes are preyed on by raptors and actively pursue their prey.

image: Woma python view more Credit: Dr Christina Zdenek A University of Queensland-led study has found that as well as ground vibrations, snakes can hear and react to airborne sound. Dr Christina ...

A group of young woma pythons bred at an Australian zoo are to be released into a protected corner of the wild fenced off from rabbits, foxes and cats.

But currently, most python species affected by this includes carpet pythons, black-headed pythons, woma pythons, Burmese pythons; they’ve even seen it in green tree pythons, which are a little ...

To test this, researchers selected 19 slithering specimens from five different categories of captive snakes: death adders (Acanthophis), woma pythons (Aspidites), pale-headed snakes (Hoplocephalus), ...

Vets in Australia carried out a delicate operation on a pet snake after it swallowed a large pair of barbecue tongs. Winston the woma python gulped down the cooking utensils as his owner Aaron ...

Zoologists searching the Central Australian outback for rare animals have stumbled across a woma python.

An Adelaide snake owner had to take his python for emergency medical treatment after the animal swallowed a set of barbecue tongs that were being used to feed him a rat. Winston, a Woma python ...

"For example, woma pythons are large nocturnal snakes with fewer predators than smaller species and probably don't need to be as cautious, so they tended to approach sound," Dr Zdenek said.