Bertrand (ball python)

Bertrand is a West African ball python belonging to Patrice Ambrose. He is just under six foot long and enjoys a diet of small rodents. Like all of Patrice's reptiles, he is named after a mathematician, in this case Bertrand Russell. Owing to his troubled relationship with Maryam the chameleon, he is occasionally given to friends to look after. This does not always end well.

Tom Winscombe is still haunted by memories of the time he looked after Bertrand and proceeded to lose him under the floorboards of the flat he was living in at the time. Fortunately, Bertrand did eventually return, and in fact went on to save him from being mugged by one of the Channellia henchmen.