Calabar Ground Python, African Burrowing Python (Calabaria reinhardtii), Togo. West Africa. Defensive posture: the head is hidden, the tail is high. Strategy that consists in diverting the predator's attention from a vital organ (the head) to a non-vital organ (the tail).

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Image size: 7360x4912 pixels (24.5"x16.4" @300dpi)

Shooting date : 2018-02-17

Keywords

Individual / Stage of development / Adult

Enumeration / Alone

Organism / Morphology / General morphology / Head

Species / Relation between species / Camouflage

Motion / Winding up

Shot / Overview

Africa / West Africa / Togo

Organism / Morphology / Morphology (zoology) / Tail (animal)

Behavior / Defense (attitude)

Species / Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) / CITES Appendix 2

February

Animal / Wild animal / Chordate / Vertebrate / Sauropsid / Reptile / Snake / Python / Calabar Ground Python (Calabar reinhardtii)

Individual / Nobody

Latin keywords

Eukaryota / Opisthokonta / Metazoa / Bilateria / Coelomata / Deuterostomia / Chordata / Vertebrata / Gnathostomata / Euteleostomi / Sarcopterygii / Rhipidistia / Tetrapodomorpha / Tetrapoda / Sauropsida / Reptilia / Lepidosauria / Squamata / Serpentes / Boidae / Calabaria

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