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This is the kind of stuff they are putting into peoples heads, its all about ratings I guess. Supersnake, what a crock!
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The Supersnake

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Brian Grosart
foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com

sorry links dosen't work, here is the text from The Arizona Daily Star Tucson, AZ

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fears of a new "supersnake" emerging in the Everglades grew this week during a hunt to track South Florida's invasive python population.
A three-day, state-coordinated hunt that started Tuesday had, by Wednesday, netted at least five African rock pythons —including a 14-foot-long female — in a targeted area in Miami-Dade County.
Those findings add to concerns that the rock python is a new breeding population in the Everglades and not just the result of a few overgrown pets released into the wild, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
In addition, state environmental officials worry that the rock python could breed with the Burmese python, which already has an established foothold in the Everglades. That could lead to a new "supersnake," said George Horne, the water district's deputy executive director.
In Africa, the rock python eats everything from goats to crocodiles. There have been cases of the snakes killing children.
"They are bigger and meaner than the Burmese python. It's not good news," said Deborah Drum, deputy director of the district's restoration sciences department.
The state estimates that thousands of Burmese pythons have spread through the Everglades.
The string of unusually low temperatures in South Florida flushed more of the snakes out of the wild and onto flood-control levees.
Three of the African rock pythons found this week were captured, and two got away. One had a circumference of 31 inches. Another was bearing eggs.
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Brian Grosart
foreverconstrictors@hotmail.com