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Laaz
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| Posted: Mon 07 May, 2012 10:13 pm |
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Are the snakes moving north ? My neighbor told me last week that she found two small striped snakes in her yard & scared them away by blasting them with the hose. I get home from work tonight & am sitting out front having a beer & look up at the light in the front of my garage & notice something on the back of it moving... Get up to investigate & it's a baby, boa or python. 
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Darkman
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 1:16 am |
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With the mild winter we had they could be but I would suspect someones pet escaped if you encountered a boa or python.
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Laaz
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 1:23 am |
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That's what I thought, until the neighbor came over we she saw me holding it... She said she had two of the same snakes in her yard the other day.
Unless someone let a pregnant female loose. They are very small, like born within the last month.
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Darkman
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 10:46 am |
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You took pictures, right?
Love to see them.
Where I live I believe it is only a matter of time before we have breeding populations of Pythons and maybe Anancondas. We have a river delta system here that would be perfect for them.
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Laaz
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 11:13 am |
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No, didn't have the camera. Wife made me let it go...
We are really starting to get things here we never had before. Armadillos are everywhere now, we never used to have them here.
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Laaz
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 12:42 pm |
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We have gators everywhere, that is normal.
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pagnr
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 12:56 pm |
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What kind of pythons are native to USA?
I remember hearing about someone who researched snake stories, such as so and so killed a 7 foot snake etc. By going back over country newspaper reports, since European settlement of Australia(just over 200 years) he found a steady decline in the reported snake sizes.
Those venemous species, usually about 6foot or 2m long these days, were much larger in the early days, often reported as 10 foot long. Fifty years later, the whopper snakes that made the paper are 8foot long, another 50 years, snakes worth talking about are 7foot long.
It seems to suggest that humans killing dangerous snakes, has selected for smaller adult size, those a bit less obvious, and maybe less agressive? |
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Laaz
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| Posted: Tue 08 May, 2012 3:41 pm |
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| Laaz wrote: | | We have gators everywhere, that is normal. |
I guess a little snake shouldn't scare you off then! 
But I know what you mean... animals that don't belong in an eco system start to appear everywhere. Here in Belgium we start to see colonies of ring necks (parakeets). They're supposed to live in the wild in Australia but not in Europe. And that's only an example... 
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Darkman
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| Posted: Thu 10 May, 2012 12:59 am |
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As is the African Rock Python and the South American Green Anaconda.
There has been at least one invenomation by a Green Mamba in a residential South Florida neighborhood. No one believes there is a breeding population but with all the exotic venomous snakes that were released during Hurricane Andrew anything is possible. It only takes one male and one female or a pregnant female to get it started.
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jrb
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| Posted: Sat 12 May, 2012 1:35 am |
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Those are GREAT pictures, Laaz. I laugh every time I think of that alligator ringing the door bell.
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