Talk:Pythonidae

message: Several of the species listed as Antaresia are referred to in many websites as Bothrochilus. I've left them listed here as both... hopeflly someone who knows more about snakes will be able to sort this out...  Grutness|hello?  01:15, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Antaresia or Bothrochilus?

message: Let's make this a redirect to python. That article is about the family as well, and there is no need for two articles on the same topic. "Python" is the common name and the article is slightly better, as well (more info on the bottom). Dawson has merged any extra info into python, so there should be no problems redirecting. Any objections? – ugen64 21:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I certainly have no objection, I think even if people are looking for the "family" of Pythonidae, most likely they will be looking at python in the first place anyway, and the term "python" doesn't necessarily cover just that singular genus, and for most concerns, refers to the family as a whole anyway. -Dawson 22:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

text: A redirect and merge solves the problem of having two articles that are essentially the same. Pythonidae should re-direct to Python for ease of use and to eliminate the redundancy. Hamster Sandwich 22:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: Without wishing to offend the well meaning efforts of others, I felt obliged to make a considerable number of expansions and corrections to the sections on Geographic range and habitat and Behaviour. Hopefully these changes will be seen as my contribution to convey more comprehensive and factual information. I would enjoy hearing any feedback via this page as there are a few other changes I would like to make here sometime. Peter b 03:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General 

message: Both references cited actually state that the claim is false, but still worth a mention because of the frequency such claims occur. Peter b 04:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because it was a hoax. Or perhaps just one of those magical shrinking pythons. You know the ones that shrink to half size when a tape measure comes out? :) -Dawson 05:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

text: They forgot about the extinct genus Messelopython from Germany. 100.37.233.93 (talk) 14:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest snake? 

message: "The larger species such as the Burmese python and Reticulated Python should only be owned by those with experience of snakes. Cases of large pet pythons killing their owners have been documented, but generally due to poor husbandry on the part of the owner, rather than the snake attacking at random."
^ Says who? The first sentence is pure POV. If the advisement is expert oppinion, there needs to be a citation of just WHO is giving this advice, and what their qualifications are, as well as to disown the advise and attribute it to either a pervailing concesus of experts, or a specific expert. Also, the line which states that most python killings are "generally due to . . . the owner" is vague speculation, if not pure POV. I'm removing the second part. Unless there is a source which specifically shows that "poor husbandry" is the primary cause of pythons attacking their owners, then this is baseless.
I don't know about the husbandry part, but I reworded what was left to make it more neutral.  I also added a reference. EEPiccolo 17:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV? 

message: The edit about a python swallowing a drunk person (sometimes in South Africa, sometimes in India) appears to be a hoax. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/giant-snake-swallows-woman.shtml  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulRomaine (talk • contribs) 13:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax: Eating Humans 

message: The word 'venomous' in the opening paragraph links to a 'rap' artist of the same name; not what most people clicking that link would be looking for.
:"Venomous" has been a redirect to Venom since June 11, 2004. Unfortunately, it was hijacked last week in favor of a Bahamian recording artist by that name. Since more than a few articles, mostly snakes articles, link to the Venom article through the Venomous redirect, I went ahead and renamed the new article in order to restore the original situation. Of course, it's possible that someone will protest. --Jwinius (talk) 01:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spurious links?

message: Any head-head comparison photos between boidae and pythonidae showing distinguishing characteristics? Would be greatly helpful, and cool. Shrumster (talk) 18:12, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It wouldn't really be that interesting. The only obvious external difference that I can think of is that, when you compare two species from both families that have labial pits, the boa has ones that are located between the scales as opposed to on them (as with pythons). The more important distinguishing characteristics are internal (teeth and jaw bones). It's hardly a coincidence that these two groups are often lumped together in a single family (Boidae). Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 22:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facial photos? 

message: For some old edits that used to be at the title "Pythonidae", see Talk:Pythonidae/Old edits. Graham87 03:34, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some old edits 

message: Without particulars, that reads like the old tautological statement of cause of death in humans. In some U.S. states long ago the definition of "death" was the stopping of the heart. I've known families who still rely on that when a relative has died of something embarrassing. The obit will say "heart attack". Which is the tautological usage under which the ONLY possible "cause" of death is a cardiac arrest.
:I suspect that what is meant is to refute the notion that the prey dies from asphyxiation. (I never heard the "popular misinformation" that the prey is "crushed to death". What one would tend to believe is asphyxiation. The coils are so tight one cannot breathe, and, for lack of oxygen, one dies.) But if that is WRONG, and death is by cardiac arrest and it's NOT the tautological usage described above, then I GUESS what is happening is that the coils are so tight that blood cannot flow, and the heart, for finding too much resistance to its attempts to move the blood, breaks like as other pump would do upon an absolute impediment to moving the flue. But that is my GUESS. If you could make it plain that that is what's happening (or that something else is happening), then I wouldn't need to rely on my GUESS.74.64.104.99 (talk) 00:07, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Please clarify "cardiac arrest"

message: Well, obviously it is, because if it wasn't illegal, it wouldn't be poaching.  I was going to change this to say "hunting", but the cited source is actually ambiguous.  It says "National Cameroonian wildlife law also protects pythons from being hunted, killed and sold, but enforcement of the law is severely lacking", which could mean it is regulated rather than prohibited. I've found another [source] that indicates it is regulated (requiring a license) rather than prohibited, but I don't know how reliable this is. Iapetus (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The poaching of the pythons is illegal in Cameroon" 

message: please explain why you are removing so much from this article. Because what you are doing is a little WP:DE.CycoMa (talk) 17:00, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing stuff 

message: The 70,000 years appear in the section called "Folklore". I am not sure how the figure was arrived at.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Y74db231 (talk • contribs) 10:20, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  70,000