Burmese python

• And for the past 15 years, Secor has studied the Burmese python -- a docile ambush-feeder that may eat only every other month or even just once a year in the wild.
(San Francisco Examiner)
• WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Mammals like raccoons, opossums, rabbits and deer are vanishing from the Florida Everglades as Burmese pythons multiply, researchers said Monday.
(United Press International)
• Scientists believe they may be recording the first significant impact of the explosive spread of Burmese Pythons in South Florida's Everglades National Park.
(Alaska Dispatch)
• The State may need to declare the Burmese Python a non-game animal, but… A pair of python cowboy boots runs some $200 or so from reputable manufacturers.
(Article.nationalreview.com)
• Entities within the U.S. Department of Interior have snuck through a new law, circumventing the voting process, which bans the transportation of the Burmese python from one state to another.
(Athens News)
• Hes been catching snakes since he was a kid in Texas. But he says a 15-foot Burmese python is a handful or two. You typically try to grab them behind the head, he says, and get somebody else to grab the back end of them.
(KQED)
• But if Romney and the GOP have learned anything in Florida — where they'll return in August for the GOP national convention in Tampa — it's that political identity these days can be as elusive as a Burmese python.
(Time)
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a new rule Tuesday banning the importation into the United States of the Burmese python, yellow anaconda and the northern and southern African pythons.
(Tallahassee Democrat)
• Sorry, but no. We might as well try to ban fleas. As anybody who knows anything about the Everglades will tell you, the giant Burmese python is here to stay.
(Beach Beacon)