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An invasion of giant snakes has turned Florida into a potential spawning ground for hybrid super-serpents capable of devouring humans.
The discovery of African rock pythons close to the Everglades wetlands is a worrying development for wildlife officers already troubled by the rising population of Burmese pythons, bred from pets dumped illegally in the wild.
Kenneth Krysko, a herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, speculates that should the two species mate, they could create genetically superior offspring more aggressive, powerful and resilient than their parents possibly with the ability to strike down human prey.
Rock pythons are so mean, they come out of the egg striking . . . this is one vicious animal, he told National Geographic News. The arrival of the Burmese python was the biggest, most devastating problem that Florida could ever have imagined.
Now we have a worse one.
More at link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6878440.ece
The discovery of African rock pythons close to the Everglades wetlands is a worrying development for wildlife officers already troubled by the rising population of Burmese pythons, bred from pets dumped illegally in the wild.
Kenneth Krysko, a herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, speculates that should the two species mate, they could create genetically superior offspring more aggressive, powerful and resilient than their parents possibly with the ability to strike down human prey.
Rock pythons are so mean, they come out of the egg striking . . . this is one vicious animal, he told National Geographic News. The arrival of the Burmese python was the biggest, most devastating problem that Florida could ever have imagined.
Now we have a worse one.
More at link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6878440.ece