Pythons making Arkansas their home

[conny63malies]

i just remembered the last one . Its the amethyst python which is the largest snake thats native to australia.

 

[Parson's Wife]

I'm not sure If I feel comforted?

the photo with the article (my mom said, I haven't seen it yet) is a picture of 5 men holding this huge snake...which they took and had stuffed....

It also talked about how the snake would eat alligators, dogs, goats, and other small livestock...which we do have all of these, and then would regurgitate (?) items such as wallets, shoes, and some other odd items.
The climate is such that they are able to survive here.

How many babies do these things have at a time?

 

[theOEGBman]

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How do people survive? You'd think by now their brains would have shriveled up into nothing.

Snakes only regurgitate when they are upset, dont feel well or their meal was too large or didnt go down right. They arent going to eat a person and barf up their clothing. As for the article, they probably snatched it off the internet to freak people out and make them read the article.

As for the babies, they can have 50+ I believe. Watch out, they're gonna get ya!

 

[conny63malies]

depends on the snake how many eggs(Pythons) or babies (boas) they have . can be anywhere from 6-30 at a time. I lived in Florida from 03 to 08 and the only time i ever heard of a non native snake eating a pet was last yer in Ocala. This was the case of a ball python strangling a parrot in a outside aviary. There was also the case of the of the burm( i think) that was trying to et the gator, or the other way around. Anyways killed them both. To be honest i am more concerened about humans pushing dangerous native wildlife out of their habitat by building in their breeding and living grounds. We have to stop building those sub divsions all over the plac,espec in Floirida. Even the gators have a right to existence. If we would stay away from habitats we wouldnt have to worry about pets geting eaten. Other than that i rather have wild animals than folks that let their dangerous dogs run loose.

 

[nccountrygirl]

Heres one for ya, click on pic to make bigger

 

[k0xxx]

To quote a Discovery News article:

"Climate modeling for the year 2100 which shows the possible climate range for pythons moving northward and swallowing up northernmost parts of Texas and Arkansas, the southeast half of Kansas, the southern half of Missouri and parts of southern Illinois and Indiana. Further east the big snakes could comfortably creep through Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and southern New Jersey."

The whole article can be found here .

 

[theOEGBman]

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Hey.....if these guys can eat an alligator and then regurgitate shoes, wallets, etc. they might just be onto something!!!!!

I would be MUCH less frightened if I were to stumble across a 20' python than I would be if I stumbled across the over 6' rattlesnake one of my dear friends met while running one early AM in Little Rock (they were doing some new construction and apparently invaded this guys home). We have LOTS of them here that big, just don't normally see them, and certainly not in the city. Anyway, iresponsible pet owners are pathetic. It is bad for all involved, the animals, the environment......I love and respect snakes. Bad snake keepers, not so much.

 

[conny63malies]

I doubt the picture was done in the US. There are some plants that let me doubt that. I have never heard of a huge snake like that being able to survive in the wild longer than a few days north of lake Okeechobee. Those are tropical animals that need warmth and sunlight to survive and strive. Arkansas gets simply said to cold to survive for them.

 

[Guitartists]

We had an alligator here in MI in Colon in the lake. People kept reporting it over the summer, but they didn't believe it until they hauled it out toward the end of summer. It was small... only about 4 feet long, but kids were swimming in the lake

Of course, none got eaten. Years back over by Sturgis we also had a lion running wild. People kept seeing it in their yards, eating their dog's food....... the people that owned it apparently thought it harmless because it was a male and they figured that since the females do the hunting, that it would be ok. Of course, who knows if that part is completely true... but they did eventually take it away and ban all exotic pets in the area. We had a surprising number of lion owners for such a rural area. The one, Kimba, died on the way to the zoo due to too heavy a dose of tranquilizer. It's so sad. If people are going to have exotic pets, they really need to care for them properly and NOT release them into the wild when they get too big to handle. Even if they do die off in the winter, it is still detrimental to the local wildlife, not to mention the cases where they have adapted and flourished! Not an animal... but just look at the Kudzu problem in the south.