Africanized Pythons... really??

[xdeus]

Yes people, now we're in danger of gentle Burmese pythons in Florida getting "Africanized" by Rock Pythons. Which, incidentally, have been known to eat people. Of course they don't cite sources... you'll just have to take their word on it.

Must be a slow news day.

Link to article.

[redpython]

well the burmese populations aren't turning out to be as big as they thought, so they move onto the next hysteria.

[h00blah]

theres so many grammatical typos LOL i hope nobody takes it seriously

i couldnt. thats for sure. LMAO it just all sounds really REALLY dumb

[TheLaughingDemon]

I live in South Florida, I've seen burms on the side of the road dead before. One thing I'm a little perplexed out is: why only burms? Retics and boas pose the same risks of getting dumped into the lakes due to being too big or aggressive.... maybe burms are just cursed.

Either way, people are very stupid and gullible and they'd rather listen to the flashy "MAN EATING SNAKE ON THE LOOSE!!!!!" article than "It was the owner's fault for letting them loose in the first place, the animals have no reason to be hated"

but then we responsible , informed herpers are grouped into the stereotypes of the idiots who don't know what they're doing and only want big snakes to impress people and look cool. It's a no win situation, baby!

And that is the end of my rant. Tune in on sunday, 10/pm eastern to see me complain about something else!

[Shawn]

well if you think of it when the import and export companies got wacked by hurricane Andrew there were more than just burms , rocks and boa's let loose. funny how you dont hear about the rest of the species that got loose back then. but then again no one fears the little things they cant see or do they?

[blackcrystal22]

I live in South Florida, I've seen burms on the side of the road dead before. One thing I'm a little perplexed out is: why only burms? Retics and boas pose the same risks of getting dumped into the lakes due to being too big or aggressive.... maybe burms are just cursed.

Either way, people are very stupid and gullible and they'd rather listen to the flashy "MAN EATING SNAKE ON THE LOOSE!!!!!" article than "It was the owner's fault for letting them loose in the first place, the animals have no reason to be hated"

but then we responsible , informed herpers are grouped into the stereotypes of the idiots who don't know what they're doing and only want big snakes to impress people and look cool. It's a no win situation, baby!

And that is the end of my rant. Tune in on sunday, 10/pm eastern to see me complain about something else!

They do not, however, have the same chances of surviving. Burms are doing so well because the Everglades match their home climate so closely, boas and other python species don't like the high humidity and wetlands of the everglades or southern-Florida as much.

[Brewster320]

One problem I see with the artice is that from what I've read on "Cateaters" (rock x burm) is that they are infact smaller than either parent species(males 7-9ft and 20-40lbs, females 10-12ft and 40-60lbs) and are docile in temperment so the idea of a giant super aggressive monster just doesn't hold up..

[Vypyrz]

I live in South Florida, I've seen burms on the side of the road dead before. One thing I'm a little perplexed out is: why only burms? Retics and boas pose the same risks of getting dumped into the lakes due to being too big or aggressive.... maybe burms are just cursed.

I think most people can't tell the difference between the snakes so eveything is a Burm. The same reason people refer to all soft drinks as Cokes, or all facial tissues are called Kleenex, or all cotton swabs are called Q-tips... meh

[Wh00h0069]

One problem I see with the artice is that from what I've read on "Cateaters" (rock x burm) is that they are infact smaller than either parent species(males 7-9ft and 20-40lbs, females 10-12ft and 40-60lbs) and are docile in temperment so the idea of a giant super aggressive monster just doesn't hold up..

I'm pretty sure their called bateaters not cateaters.

[redpython]

They do not, however, have the same chances of surviving. Burms are doing so well because the Everglades match their home climate so closely, boas and other python species don't like the high humidity and wetlands of the everglades or southern-Florida as much.

i think this is crazy talk, south florida offers the perfect habitat for retics and boas and all kinds of habitat.

What people don't get is even if they are breeding in the wild, their chances of making it to adult hood are pretty slim with all of the predators around.