Any Boelen's pythons in zoos

[vogelcommando]

The Boelen's python ( Liasis boeleni ) was only discovered in 1953 and is found only in New Guinea. The species is very rare in captivity and I've seen it only once in a zoo ( Rotterdam Zoo - the Netherlands some 15-20 years ago ). Also I've seen them for sell at a few herptile conventions in the Netherlands and Germany.
I was wondering if at hte moment any Boelen's pythons are kept ( and maybe even bred ) in public or privat collections. Can somebody help me ?

 

[jusko88]

Yes LA zoo has one. mstickmanp posted in the arrivals La zoo forum. Its in LAIR. thats so weird cause i was about to post on there and see if anyone can post a pic of it.

 

[Chlidonias]

Bergen, Chester, London in Europe: ZootierlisteHomepage

 

[Chlidonias]

this might help as well: The Boelen's Python Group WELCOME

 

[Maguari]

Chester and London both display Boelen's Pythons.

 

[Maguari]

Bergen, Chester, London in Europe: ZootierlisteHomepage

Gah - ninja'd by a tern-otter!

 

[Chlidonias]

well storks are always late in my experience

 

[vogelcommando]

Thanks a lot for such a quick responce !

 

[condor]

In addition to a few zoos on both sides of the Atlantic, there are several 10s (if not 100s) kept by private reptile keepers. The ones leaving Indonesia with CITES papers are (supposedly) mostly bred at reptile farms.

edit; a fast search gave this http://www.cites.org/eng/com/ac/25/snake/Topic2.pdf
Page 16: "between 2000 and 2009, the export of 1069 live specimens was
reported by exporting countries of which 232 were reported as wild-captured from ID
(incl. eight skins originating from PG). The remainder of specimens refer to 806
specimens born in captivity (farmed) in ID, (three specimens were farmed in the US),
and 28 were bred in captivity (all in US and CA, two specimens in NO). Four major
importers are the US (658), followed by GB (156), JP (81) and FR (80)."

I assume PG = Papua New Guinea, ID = Indonesia, US = USA, CA = Canada, GB = Great Britain, JP = Japan and FR = France. NO = Norway?

Probably some illegal (non-CITES) exports too.

 

[carlos77]

Milwaukee county zoo has this species.

 

[DavidBrown]

San Diego Zoo too. I have a picture of its exhibit in the gallery.

http://www.zoochat.com/39/boelens-python-295012/

 

[groundskeeper24]

ProExotics, a reptile breeder in Colorado used to have this species. I'm not sure if they've bred. Their facility, which was not open to the public, burned down in the fall of 2011. Some animals survived the fire, but I'm not sure if this species did.