Quote Originally Posted by Gio View Post
I'd should have been more specific.

I'm interested in the behaviors. What is similar and what is different between the two? My Dwarf X SD X mainland, male is very arboreal even at 9 feet long. He is extremely active and very fast. The Timor python resembles a cross between a scrub and retic to me. As for the Aussie pythons, I feel the scrub may be the closest relative to the retic, at least their behaviors in the wild have been reported to be similar. That's why I'm so interested.

I doubt you'll be able to get a good grasp on the differences and similarities in such a short time, but you are the only one I know that has both species.
Sure, I definitely need more time to really get a picture, but from this one experience, she is definitely not as fast as my scrub (or maybe she wasn't trying to be, so take that with a grain of salt). My scrub tends to stay in the hides throughout the day and climb around the branches at night. I have read that young retics are inclined to be more aboreal, but they lose that desire as they get bigger (or rather the ability). It would have to be a strong branch to support a full grown retic. I wonder how "arboreal" they would really choose to be though. What I mean by that is, an emerald tree boa will try to find the highest perch possible, no matter what, where as retic behavior may just want to be off the ground. There is also the glaring difference between them being that my scrub is presumably wild caught and this retic is captive bred.