Here is an nteresting snake photo

[Teegate]

Some of the snake lovers on this site may want to see this. It is rated PG.

It may be slow loading so give it time.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator.asp

Guy

 

[uuglypher]

Some of the snake lovers on this site may want to see this. It is rated PG.

I saw this shot about 20 minutes ago on CNN. Interesting. I'm wondering why it's at the Snopes website>

Dave

 

[NJSnakeMan]

crazy

 

[woodjin]

What was a Burmese python doing in Florida? Must have been a pet someone abandoned. I used to have a Burmese python. Years ago. I used to go everywhere with him. He used to sleep with me, go to the beach with me in my car, we used to go swimming together (not in the ocean). He died of respirtary failure at 8'. It is easy to become way too trusting when you spend alot of time with an animal like that. They are, after all, snakes. It is a shame when they get too big and people abandon them. I have come to the conclusion that wild animals are best left to the wild.

Jeff

 

[NJSnakeMan]

Burmese Python are well established in isolated parts of FL now. A lot of them were released because they got to big for pets, there are a lot of other introduced species in FL as well. Too many to name.

 

[woodjin]

Really! I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I guess FL has a climate that can support a burmese python. Must be hell on the ecosystem down there.

Jeff

 

[foofoo]

i was told that near the airport there are colonies of monkeys and exotic birds.

 

[uuglypher]

Burmese Python are well established in isolated parts of FL now. A lot of them were released because they got to big for pets, there are a lot of other introduced species in FL as well. Too many to name.

Most of the smaller burmese pythons that are found these days are the result of the species having bred and laid eggs that hatched .. The burmese is now a self-sustaining population in southern FL.

The Cuban anole, a lizard, is now established in several regions of Miami.

As for birds, at least 10 species of Central and South American parrots - mostly various conures and Amazons - now breed in FL and southern California. There is even a species of communal nesting parrot from South America - the Quaker parrot - that has reportedly estalished breeding populations in: Florida, Connecticut, New York City, Texas, Detroit, and Vancouver, BC. I've heard they are also in Newark, but have not had that confirmed. Their range in South America includes regions that experience a full spectrum of seasonal changes, so they aclimate to the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere quite well.

The releases are often not intentional in the case of the parrots; shipping crates full of imported birds have been dropped and broken open, releasing the birds.

Dave