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Julia answers our burning questions: Why do snakes shed? And can you identify a snake from its skin alone?
This clip comes from Season 2, Episode 3: In the Poo!
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Meet Julia Baker, a pastry chef and puppeteer turned master snake catcher in Brisbane, Australia. Follow along as Julia and her partner Johnny Bagpipes help people throughout Australia peacefully coexist with snakes, instead of fearing them.
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Julia answers our burning questions: Why do snakes shed? And can you identify a snake from its skin alone?
This clip comes from Season 2, Episode 3: In the Poo!
About Snake Boss:
Meet Julia Baker, a pastry chef and puppeteer turned master snake catcher in Brisbane, Australia. Follow along as Julia and her partner Johnny Bagpipes help people throughout Australia peacefully coexist with snakes, instead of fearing them.
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00:00One of the most common questions that I get asked in my line of business is, can you identify
00:06a snake from its skin?
00:08All reptiles shed their skin, in fact even crops, turtles and lizards do, and the reason
00:13why is because their skin doesn't grow with them, so they need a new skin probably two
00:17to four times every year for the rest of their life.
00:20When snakes shed, everything comes off, in fact they even have a transparent scale on
00:25their eye that comes off as well.
00:28I always find it really interesting that we humans have something in common with reptiles.
00:32Our hair and nails are made out of the same material as their scales, keratin, well my
00:38nails aren't because they're fake.
00:39So the question still remains, can we identify a snake by its skin?
00:44Well there is a method that we can use to narrow it down, it's called scale counting.
00:49If you find a skin like this, you want to look at the widest part of the mid-body where
00:53its belly is.
00:54I've got a skin here from my pet carpet python Jezebel, and you can see quite clearly she's
00:59got lots and lots of back scales.
01:02So what you want to do is you count the scales going across like this, and if you find that
01:06there's more than 31 scales, you've got a python.
01:09In fact I'll show you the difference, because I've got here a red belly skin, as you can
01:13see it's not black at all, and I've got a python skin.
01:16So when you're looking at the belly scales, the red belly's got a really, really wide
01:20one, and the python's got very small ones, which explains why they have much, much less
01:25scales on their back.
01:26In fact a red belly will only have about 17 scales.
01:30Having said that, tree snakes also only have 15 scales, so it won't tell you if it's a
01:34venomous snake or not, but at least you can determine if you've got a python on your property.
01:40And if you do, leave them be.