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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade. Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. The best chance to catch a Python is during a cold front.

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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

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For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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Southern Boobook near Broome

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For those of you that miss me mentioning some of the other wildlife around Broome I think I should mention the Black-headed Python we also saw last week! Black-headed Python measuring. Black-headed Pythons are only in the north of Australia. The snake had sadly been hit by a vehicle and was off the edge of the highway.

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Barred Creek

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Google Earth image of Broome to Barred Creek The first bit of excitement on the trip was a rather nice looking Black-headed Python Aspidites melanocephalus. Black-headed Python We then reached Barred Creek just before high tide and parked the car in the shade of the natural bush.

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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

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(Barn Owls weigh about a pound); 2) access fact-filled sites like the Peregrine Fund or the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ; or 3) call any raptor rehabilitation center, and whoever answers the phone will tell you that the information on Facebook is bunk.

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She Turned Me Into A Newt

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The entire scene from which that bit of dialogue comes, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail , is one of my favorite scenes ever from a movie. Peasant: She turned me into a newt! Sir Bedevere: A newt? … … … … Peasant: I got better.

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Bicknell’s Thrush in Trouble on Wintering Grounds

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But, to paraphrase Monty Python, every species is sacred. Believe me, after hiking up a mountain in the middle of the night just to catch a glimpse of this bird, I have mixed feelings about whether we even need it in a world with abundant Gray-cheeked Thrush , its more copious counterpart.