P. sebae in Florida

[Joe Hiduke]

Just in case there's not enough python panic, African rocks in Florida. Plenty of quotes in this to keep the media hysteria going.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...nt-snakes.html

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[sg1trogdor]

Just great.

[redpython]

look at that one burm, it looks like a color mutation.

[Brewster320]

This is really bad, just great!

Although on a side note I wonder whats going to happen onces rocks meet up with the already well established burms in the glades. As far as evolution goes this could be some what interesting. Will one species out compete the other, will they coexist and stick to their own kind, or will they hybridnize and possibly over time give rise to a new species of python?

It might not be a good thing for us for the enviroment but evolution wise the seen is set for something straight out of Darwin's "Orgin of Species".

[nixer]

this is just more of the same lies i want to know what happened to the ones the state of FL released in 79'

[Eventide]

Wow. And that's by National Geographic, too. That's very disappointing.

I have no experience with African Rocks except for those I've seen in reptile specialty stores, but they sure don't seem like "come out of the egg striking" dangerous man-eating killers to me. Grrrr.

[dadspets]

African rocks are one of the top snakes being banned to begin with. So I'm sure these are not the first rocks found. Yes that 2nd baby burm looks to be a morph of some tipe.

[Denial]

They come out of the egg striking for defense. There a couple inches long coming into a world filled with all kinds of large creatures I would strike to

[Shawn]

from my experiences with Afrocks they are no different than any other snake they do calm down just fine with proper care and handling. coming out of the egg , they are no different than any other creature all it wants is to survive. this is just another shot of the media going off half cocked. Nat Geo is no different than any other media group when it comes to certain things . They go by old school theories and wont believe anything different.

[Patrick Long]

look at that one burm, it looks like a color mutation.

I was thinkin that same thing

Look how dark the other Burms are.