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Invading giant snakes threaten U.S wilderness areas
Jim Loney

A 23 feet long pet python Burmese pythons and other giant snakes imported as pets could endanger some of America's most important parks and wilderness areas if they are allowed to multiply, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Wildlife experts say the Burmese python is distributed across thousands of square miles (kilometers) in south Florida. There could be tens of thousands in the Everglades, a wildlife refuge that is home to the Florida panther and other endangered species.

The Burmese python and four other non-native snakes -- boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, northern and southern African pythons -- are considered "high-risk" threats to the health of U.S. ecosystems because they eat native birds and animals, the U.S. Geological Survey report said.

Two species, the boa constrictor and Burmese python, have already established breeding populations in south Florida and experts have found "strong evidence" that the northern African python may be breeding in the wild as well.

Four other snakes, the reticulated python, green anaconda, Beni anaconda and Deschauensee's anaconda, are considered "medium-risk" but are still potentially serious threats, the USGS report said.

Florida wildlife officials say the Everglades wetland is a dumping ground for pet owners who find their snakes too large to handle when they mature. They eat birds, reptiles, rodents and other small mammals and are considered a major threat to endangered species like the wood stork and Key Largo woodrat.

Giant snakes
"This report clearly reveals that these giant snakes threaten to destabilize some of our most precious ecosystems and parks, primarily through predation on vulnerable native species," Robert Reed, a USGS invasive species scientist, said in a statement.

The snakes are among the largest in the world. Three of the nine species can reach lengths of 20 feet and weigh more than 200 pounds (90 kg), the report said.

The reticulated python is the world's longest snake and the green anaconda is the heaviest, the scientists said, and both have been found in south Florida, although it was not certain if they are breeding.

Some of the snakes, including the boa constrictor and northern African python, are tolerant of urban living and already live wild in the Miami suburbs, the report said.

Scientists said the threat to humans from giant snakes in the wild is small.

A 2-year-old Florida girl was strangled this summer by a pet Burmese python that escaped from a holding tank in the child's home.

State wildlife managers recently allowed hunters to kill invasive snakes. Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress to ban the importation of some constrictors and the Humane Society of the United States recently said it supported laws to stop the importation of and trade in large reptiles.[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

SimonAndal:
Proud self-servicer here!

Mr author, will p*rno make you to rape or something pls expatiate d relationship it has with coke or indo na.....

eeeeeee: Thank you.
Many people here have no real life experience with pythons whatsoever, they just see a picture of a big snake and start spewing thrash.

Pythons are non venomous and are not aggressive.

They tend to slither away when sighted or just remain still.

Often what you need to do is just use a stick and get it out of the way.

@ Okpara please keep your goat very well. you can watch this sha...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-F5JKoF0I8 or this http://floridashootersnetwork.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=111052.
because small time now, una go talk say because humans have shoulders, a python can not swallow them. even if not for meal but for the danger of being an animal, wild for that matter.... no orientation, no primary school, no novels, no internet... nothing...... animals are not as reasonable as we do. Forget about being venomous or the aggressiveness, do you expect those guys to now arrest that giant snake and take it to court or wild life center that doesn't exist in Nigeria unlike in US and likes?

Life after death... i hope those chics are really cockerels, may be some virgs will be waiting for them , even though they were killed n treated unlike a fool(s) running after Seven Virgins.

Smily202: 9ja way of thinking.........Tufiakwa !!!!!!!

Bad boy Ever liveth! why u com preempt na?

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]Are you teaching me? LMAO!
I have been in the bush. you fellows sit in your homes and have no ideas about these animals. It cant just "swallow" someone. IT will die if it tries that. Infact it wont even try. YOu be guided!
Spreading useless tales to scare the gullible. go see a python first.

stinkin city-bred cowards.[/quote]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRhRzE_AkQ
did you see the first video, then check out this... you will know that what swallowed that boy was also swallowed by your so called pet. do you think everybody is a python hunter like you?

Baba419: Am dissapointed, some of you are here shouting see meat when a beautiful wildlife specimen is being killed for nothing. Thats like an african rock python and by the size it is as old as its killers, illiteracy will kill us before we know.

it seems you dont know how dangerous a python can be especially when its hungry, it constricts, drain you and swallow you for a long time meal... did you even find out where (particular point) they killed it, do you think if it had had the opportunity to swallow any passersby, it wouldn't have done a great Christmas for itself. you con sit down here de talk say na beautiful wildlife species cos of national geography wey u de watch for cable or wildlife wey u de watch for because. Any snake is not a pet mind you because they don't have memory; they can have you as a MEALER now and as meal in the next few seconds... forget documentary and Bike man o, white man 'depoisons' them while juju might function well for charlie boy. be guided!

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Fourtyjezz: abi? Abeg help me ask dem

type celebrities on google and press enter may be you will see Terry G, Ice Prince and You go die... 8a!

only one day will a woman stops bragging with her virginity... anyway sha life without sex dey cause cancer O!

may be 'sexy' but not really beautiful.... she is active, lively and funNIE.... self-service wif EMINADO

How does it look like if a man is eventually impregnated by another man and he gives birth to only God knows gender? This alarming and unrelenting campaign for same sex marriage (esp. Gay) prompted this question as a lot of natural / biological laws have been technologically or otherwise broken ranging from transgender, augmentation mammoplasty, monozygotic or siamese twin and even human cloning. how will it look like if you are walking on a street and ram into a man with pregnancy (not big belly) or being called upon to assist a man pushing in the labour room?

Pipsland78: 1) Mama Ope at Mokola
2) Mama Soji at Eleyele
3) Iya Ala at Molete
4) Iya Ope at Odo Ona (not same as mama Ope)
5) Ori oke Mokola (Mokola hill) beside the Cultural Centre.
6) Martha's Kitchen beside Book Sellers along Dugbe Jericho road. A plate is #1,500 flat.
7) Chinese restaurant at Jericho and another at Ring Road beside Bubble club.
Skye bank amala and Ojunrin amala both around Bodija market
9) Lebanese food at Foodies located at Jericho, not far from Adamasingba stadium.
10) Iya Dunni at Challenge

Thank me later.

wa sere O jatan! Plus laroso @ adeoyo n iyadunni @ challenge probably chk alagbo @ odo ona for perfect system

Another PDP is gathering momentum!

Countless of such misleading statements have been made by his predecessors and still hijack the process and rule for 'Only God knows' numbers of years. In fact in most cases this pre empts their action... I hope there is no fire on the mountain sha> Dat na d reason we de advise dis 'Hamathan' make him do wetin he wan do b4 another LONG TIN go happen.

lets go to d world cup!

problem known is half solved except u dont realise dat sugar is sweet. and the opposite of sweet is bitter. take anything bpitter; take bitterleaf water, extracts from dogoyaro tree, Jogbo if u can find the meaning in your mother's language , all these will neutralise the sugar in your body system if well applied. Warning! no go take oronron eran O!

Gbagbe w**e, Skelewu is the piece. Music is not meant for the moody moments only neither sensations all the time, ur fun should also be catered for. skelewu is a dancehall track and u dont need it to give u lectures like 'Nigeria Unite' would giv u. but 'toin toin' by Bracket will annoy any serious producer.

emmydeep:

General Ihejirika is a hero. We love him so much and shall keep supporting him.
Is he going for a political post?

[quote author=life_style]@ lynpetra, i for like have private talk with you o, chill i no wan toast you, i swear. I just need more private tips

pm me.[/quote][quote author=life_style]@ lynpetra, i for like have private talk with you o, chill i no wan toast you, i swear. I just need more private tips

pm me.[/quote]@lynpetra
U dey yarn, but hope the target no de read ur lines, d case go worse for ur student o!

Gido2sun: Plz go with ur dictionary

Don't go with a dictionary because it won't work! the inspiration is not limited to a mono-lingual but what i will call diversi-linguistico which requires POLYTIONARY!

Boye94: launching higi haga

Not only HIGI HAGA, plus some KRINKUN KRANKUN, because it is going to be a SAGA. Don't pre-empt a STILL BORN, may be the presents will be able to put an end to this KHAKI-OSTO- MOBO-CRAZY!

A better wife? but they say behind every successful man is a good woman... can you please tell us the reason the wife ought to be changed.
As for me, I wish him LL&P; and wisdom to pay back the pple that bought shoe for him so that they can also enjoy their investment.

when are they going to start sentenc-ing the girls or ladies that walk in d street nakedly. then the so acclaimed smart ones, that will know right from day one that she's not going to go down with her acclaimed MG and eventually the bush meat go chop the hunter? if our distinguished Senator can find solution to these two question, i will second a death sentence for them afterall, hotspot dey na!

d disease is genetic and not contagious, by now we suppose don know the world/christian politics na..... d guy is smart to do dat becos he is informed.