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A python plays up to the camera

by Steve Backshall for Revealing New Guinea's forest secrets , 4 February 2009

Snake expert Steve Backshall comes across an amethystine python while exploring New Guinea's Southern Highland forests. It seems to take a particular interest in photographer Ulla Lohmann's camera.

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Steve meets a local python

Many of the animals that the team have come across in New Guinea may never have seen human's before. In the contrasting landscape of the far north, programme maker Chadden Hunter also comes across an animal that takes a particular interest in his presence. Watch Chadden's encounter with a white wolf.

Published 28 August 2009

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Steve is a naturalist and climber with a particular fascination with reptiles.

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