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Kelly_Haller
at Tue Jan 26 11:54:49 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kelly_Haller ]
there is photographic evidence that some boas and pythons were killed in central Florida by the cold front. There is also evidence that a few did survive in extreme southern Florida. But I still believe that a long-term, self sustaining population would only be possible in extreme southern Florida. I base this on 30 years of climate data comparisons from Florida and the extreme northern ranges of the burmese in Southeast Asia and Indo-China.
Climate in central Florida is too cool in most winters for long-term survival of a reproducing population, not only for consistent year after year winter survivability, but the summer month night-time lows in most years are too cool for the physiologically incubating female to maintain the proper egg mass temps for consistent successful incubation to hatching. As stated above, and in my opinion, this could only be possible in extreme southern Florida at best.
Kelly
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- ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Mon Jan 25 07:57:15 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - Southernboids, Mon Jan 25 08:24:45 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - mike_panic, Mon Jan 25 08:39:49 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - Robb75, Mon Jan 25 09:17:47 2010
- Thanks for sharing this info, Tom. - Jonathan_Brady, Mon Jan 25 09:59:29 2010
- Tom, a question - Jonathan_Brady, Mon Jan 25 10:06:02 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - Robb75, Mon Jan 25 10:37:44 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - SgtStinky, Mon Jan 25 20:13:40 2010
- RE: ABOUT THE BURMS AND THE FREEZE - Upscale, Mon Jan 25 23:37:00 2010
- THE SWAMPS DON`T FREEZE!!!! - mjf, Mon Jan 25 23:39:30 2010
- The main point is still............ - Kelly_Haller, Tue Jan 26 00:32:03 2010
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I completely agree, and...... - Kelly_Haller, Tue Jan 26 11:54:49 2010