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[Mokele]

New pic from the field. For scale, the snake is 1.83 m without tail, 2.3 m with tail, and the marks on the pole are 20 cm apart. It's a Brown Tree Snake, which you'll see more about in my upcoming field report.

 

 

Mokele

[ydoaPs]

what part of the snake(besides the head) isn't tail?

[bascule]

Are you drinking a Michelob Ultra?! Tsk tsk, bascule.....

 

It's Moretti, my favorite Italian beer...

[Mokele]

what part of the snake(besides the head) isn't tail?

 

Basically, snakes have a head, which is connected to a neck (though to what degree this is distinct from the body is poorly understood and widely debated), and then a body. At the end of the body, lots of things happen, but mostly the vertebrae become less complex, the ribs vanish, and, most importantly, the cloaca (universal "out" hole) occurs. Most of any given snake is body, with only a short tail (contrasted with legless lizards, who are mostly tail). Length without tail is important since females and males may have drasticly different tail lengths (because that's where the male keeps his retractile hemipenes, thus males have longer tails), and because the tail has a limited role in much of locomotion (what I study).

 

Mokele

[BigMoosie]

Me about 3 months ago:

 

[ciderminx]

I work on cargo ships,this is from the party for crossing the equator, work suspended for 24hrs!

[ciderminx]

damn computers, spent ages trying to resize that thing, sorry!

[rakuenso]

New pic from the field. For scale' date=' the snake is 1.83 m without tail, 2.3 m with tail, and the marks on the pole are 20 cm apart. It's a Brown Tree Snake, which you'll see more about in my upcoming field report.

 

[img']http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/Mokele/Guam/MeandhugeBTS.jpg[/img]

 

Mokele

 

 

I was staring too hard at the sideburns to realize that there was a snake on the pole... but anyways whats a hemipenes? a half penis? how does that work? maybe its the snakes counterpart of being limb?

[JPQuiceno]

Dude Mokele, how long you been growing your beard for? It would be cool if you got it braided. ;-)

[Mokele]

but anyways whats a hemipenes? a half penis? how does that work? maybe its the snakes counterpart of being limb?

 

Basically, snakes and lizards have two paired penises, called hemipenes, which are usually inverted and stored in the tail. They aren't actually limbs (since all lizards have them too), but their homology with the naughty bits of other species is debatable, as they might be a case of convergent evolution.

 

For a quick buck, bet a friend that some snakes have limbs. You'll win, since, while none have external limbs, boas and pythons retain vestiges of the pelvis, femur and toes within their body wall, evidenced by a small pair of claws ("spurs") at the cloaca, one on each side.

 

Dude Mokele, how long you been growing your beard for? It would be cool if you got it braided. ;-)

 

I've had it for 6 or so years, give or take, but it's sort of grown in gradually over that time. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to braid well, and I'm too tall to make a good dwarf.

 

Mokele

[ydoaPs]

I work on cargo ships,this is from the party for crossing the equator, work suspended for 24hrs!

which one are you?

[ciderminx]

the middle one, the only female onboard!

[YT2095]

The most recent pic taken (ignore the cigarette).

 

My Daughter and I. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/yt2095/YT&Hannah.jpg

 

My Wife and I. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/yt2095/YT&Kitty.jpg

 

 

edit: can`t seem to get all pics to show without just the url popping up instead? you`ll just have to do some Clicking I guess!

[-Demosthenes-]

Looking pimp this morning YT.

[JPQuiceno]

Fresh to def.

[YT2095]

here`s another of her, just coz she`s so Beautifull

 

http://www.yt2095.net/YT&Hannah2.jpg

[SorceressPol]

She is gorgeous. She must take after her mother.

[BobbyJoeCool]

How are you guys getting your picutres like that? When I try it, it makes links to them...

[mooeypoo]

Here are a few of mine:

 

That's a few years ago though, in my "Matrixlike-sunglasses"! I'm such a geek

 

another me from my military time:

 

and a recent one:

 

 

 

Is it just me, or do you see a resemblance to my avatar?

 

~mooey

[the tree]

moi, not the most photogenic of types.

[insane_alien]

Yeah, been meaning to get round to this for a while... so, anyway here i am. mock if you will.

in hindsight i should have removed my earphones but my speakers on my laptop suck and it was a really good song(hysteria by muse).

 

EDIT: crap forgot to resize

[the tree]

mock if you will.

*cracks up in laughter*

[Rakdos]

mock if you will.

 

 

 

I am mocking you.

[insane_alien]

you call that a mocking? that sucked. i expected better of the SFN community.

[Klaynos]

you call that a mocking? that sucked. i expected better of the SFN community.

 

I think I speak for all of us when I say a mocking isn't nessassary in this case...