Unfortunately for the burms they will probably die from a nasty respitory infection. Should be pretty obvious, they come from tropical asia not North America. The Everglades/south Florida(asides from Hawaii) is the only place in the USA where that even comes close to their natural climate and is the only reason they can establish there.

In the long run this may be good for herpers because it will put some of these ridiculous myths to rest. I think the big question to the ones conducting the test is can they burrow down like other reptiles and find a way to escape the extreme cold and survive. this scenario is very unlikely and should prove to be the death of them.

What concerns me with these reports of these escapes burmese python populations is when the leave out the burmese and just say python. There are many many python species but most people are only aware of the really big one that ate some guy in some country so they think that all pythons are huge and dangerous. Not mentioning the species hides certain facts.

Its like saying a feline and not mentioning if its a tiger or a house cat, obviously two very different animals. I think that ridiculous report on pythons traveling all over the USA was based on 100's of python species, which come from many different places in the world and not just the ones in question. This is where they are pulling the wool over the publics eyes with out then realizing it.

The main problem with all the big snakes are the uneducated and undevoted people who buy then as little babies and then dont want to deal with them (or know how) when they get big and intimidating. They end up on the news and scare the crap out of everyone. Of course we never hear of the 10,000's of responsible herpers on the news, just like pits only the bad ones get news coverage.

It is this small irresponsible group which is ruining it for everyone.










People need education and facts not myths.