{"id":4711,"date":"2025-07-31T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:29:31","slug":"python-under-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4711","title":{"rendered":"Python under water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throwback to a wild Burmese python underwater in the Everglades back in 2015. Most people would never know this photo was taken underwater if I didn\u2019t tell them, it was in a spot with very clear water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A snake\u2019s tongue is flicked out to collect scent particles and bring them back to the Jacobson\u2019s organ for analyzation, providing the animal with a sensitive scent detection ability. Not only do snakes flick their tongues through the air for this, but also underwater as seen in this photo. Pretty neat!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pythons are consistently a very controversial topic with a lot of misinformation and lack of education on the subject. I spend the majority of my post\u2019s going over the same repetitive questions, so<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I made a blog to cover all the frequently asked questions such as why are they here, how big do they get, what do they eat, ecological threats, bounty, comparisons to feral cats<strong>Watch video below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwback to a wild Burmese python underwater in the Everglades back in 2015. Most people would never know this photo was taken underwater if I didn\u2019t tell them, it was in a spot with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}