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NEWS ABOUT: burmese python

burmese python stories: 4 news summaries
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 Fla. Python Hunt 
 More Wild Goose Chase 


Jul 30, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “Great Florida Python Hunt” is on, but the prey population is likely smaller—and less dangerous—than advertised, Paul Quinlan writes in the Palm Beach Post. Proponents have said there could be 100-150,000 Burmese pythons in the Everglades, a figure the media has seized upon. But the... More »

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Florida • snake • Bill Nelson • Everglades • predators • burmese python • national park • hunt

(Newser) - A 2-year-old Florida girl was strangled to death yesterday by a pet python owned by her mother’s boyfriend, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Charles Darnell noticed that his 8-foot-long albino Burmese python had escaped from its aquarium when he awoke yesterday morning. He found it on top of the... More »

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Florida • snake • burmese python • pythons • snake attack

Fla. Eyes Loosing Bounty Hunters on Pythons

Some 150K snakes living in Everglades

May 29, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With pythons slithering amok in the Everglades, Florida wildlife managers are toying with the notion of employing bounty hunters to cull the population, the Miami Herald reports. “If we don't get on top of this, they're going to eradicate the indigenous species of the Everglades,” said one. Officials... More »

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Florida • snake • wildlife • Everglades • bounty hunter • burmese python • pythons

Balmy, With a Chance of Pythons

Dumped American pets thriving in wild on global warming

Feb 21, 08 9:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Burmese pythons could rapidly establish a stranglehold on the southern US due in part to snake-loving global warming, according to a new government report. With climate change and more pet owners releasing unwanted snakes into the wild, the adaptable serpent could soon call home any area from Northern California through... More »

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climate change • Florida • global warming • snakes • alligator • burmese python • habitat • animal

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