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HappyHillbilly
at Thu Jun 25 21:19:17 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by HappyHillbilly ]
...a human is "just another prey item" to a python — especially a small human. Pythons are constrictor snakes and have been known to eat people in their native areas of Southeast Asia.
"A 20-foot python, if it grabbed one of us, would bite us and then within just — instantly — seconds, it would be wrapped all the way around you and squeezing the life out of you,"
...said herpetologist Whit Gibbons, a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia and a member of the python project.
Is this fella Rodda's twin brother, separated at birth???
How many of you have seen a 20ft Burmese python?
How many of us have been bitten by a Burmese python? Did it wrap you to squeeze the life out of you?
Maybe this research program will be good for the professor. Then he'll be able to ad Burmese pythons to the the list of snake(s) that he's actually had any hands-on experience with.
However, I have to try to be fair. It's very possible that Mr. Gibbons' comments were taken way out of context by the article's author. I mean, after all, it was written by the AP and posted on MSNBC.MSN.com. Not exactly what I consider reliable, unbiased sources, especially when combined.
Anyone wanna bet that regardless of the outcome, the research will be considered "inconclusive"?
Later!
HH
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RE: Well, at least they're running test - HappyHillbilly, Thu Jun 25 21:19:17 2009