Alligators, and Pythons, and Simbrooks, Oh My..

[H2Andy]

(ok.. the Simbrooks bit was just for kicks)

Python picked up in Vero Beach, Florida

...it was 16 feet long

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=2&u=/ap/20040723/ap_on_fe_st/big_snake

 

[Mrs Mares]

People are sooo iresponsible it makes my blood boil. Now that snake will probably have to be put to sleep :sad:

 

[adder70]

I will have to find that story about the gator and python battle in the Glades from last year. They got picks as apparently th ewho is eating who battle lasted for hours.

 

[adder70]

Found it pretty quick.

http://bigelowsociety.com/travel/pythgatr.htm

 

[H2Andy]

well... i couldn't tell who won...

 

[diver_paula]

well... i couldn't tell who won...

"... An alligator and 12 foot python battled to a draw..."

 

[FredT]

People are sooo iresponsible it makes my blood boil. Now that snake will probably have to be put to sleep :sad:

No, they could just ship that puppy up here to me.

BTW it may not be an irresponsible owner. Several reptile breeding operations have been destroyed south of the lake by hurricanes over the last 50 years. Pythons and most other reptiles do quite well down there eating swamp rat and other swamp critters. A 12 foot burmese is still an "adolescent" although sexually mature. They get to almost 30' in the wild.

I know of one case in Houston where a 2' boa escaped after a pet shop was vandalized. 5 years later as an 8'er he dropped thorugh the suspended ceiling of the supermarket down the strip mall a way when he got to big for it to support him. He had been VERY well fed on the rats living in the supermarket walls to grow that fast. Of course the cop responding freaked and shot the helpful harmless critter rather than calling the pet shop for help.

FT

 

[H2Andy]

"... An alligator and 12 foot python battled to a draw..."

dang... missed that, thanks