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by pictigaster1 on January 17, 2010
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What about the fenced in site where they were going to prove the burms could survive further north.Any word on that program from any one.
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by venomrob on January 17, 2010
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I heard about that awhile ago and no more after that. They will probably say they can thrive in 30 degree weather. Which we all know is impossible!!! But everyone in the country believes the media over anything else.
Rob
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by pitbulllady on January 17, 2010
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Yeah, but this "study" is in South Carolina. We had two weeks of temperatures in the 'teens at night, and barely above freezing during the day, and some of the outlying spots got down as low as 11-12 degrees on a couple of nights. It wouldnt' surprise me if even the populations of native snakes suffer considerable losses this winter. When the nights actually only got down to like, 27 degrees, we thought of that as a "warm spell"! The only way those Burms will survive that is if the "researchers" provide very deep, artificially-made and artificially-heated burrows, which I would not put past them doing, just to "prove" that these snakes can survive anywhere in the southern tier of US states.
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by venomrob on January 17, 2010
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Im sure they would cheat just to get "their" point across. Either that or there will be other snakes they have inside and being properly taken care off to show that these survived 10 degree weather. Probably will have a clutch of eggs or hatchlings too they can show off to scare the general public.
Rob
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by pictigaster1 on January 17, 2010
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I am pritty sure the hides provided were 4 foot deep and wes also located on some sort of hot spring or one was involved.
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by Cro on January 17, 2010
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When the "researchers" were contacted last week about the status of the experiment, they said they would have no comments until the study was completed and published in a peer review journal sometime in the future.
Considering that the pythons in the cage have been provided with underground refuges, and have been well fed, it is fairly likely some of them will survive the cold temperatures. Not to mention, that the whole area might be heated above ambient temperatures, due to warmth generated by the reactor cooling systems.
Perhaps all of the pythons in the experiment will survive, as we have no way of knowing if they were brought inside during the cold.
Some of the "researchers" are known to have a bias toward outlawing pythons from private keepers, as they stated in news papers, so, the whole experiment is a bit suspect.
It would not surprise me one bit, if they say the pythons all survived the worse cold in 135 years, and are still a danger for expanding their range across the US.
Best Regards
John Z
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by JSargent on January 17, 2010
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as John stated the site is built by a nuclear power plant an the water is heated which in turn heats the land surrounding that area....not a good indication of whether burms could survive inland SC winters....
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by lanceheads on January 18, 2010
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We all agree that Burms couldn't survive the winter weather in South Carolina.
With that said, can we assume that the people involved in this wacky experiment won't be charged with animal cruelty when the "experiment' fails?
I mean if they subjected those pythons to those conditions, we know they won't survive, so I think those charges are valid. And they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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by VaWrestler on January 18, 2010
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I don't agree; I think they would survive winter just fine, being they naturally live in fairly deep burrows and stop eating around Oct. I live in the mountains of Virginia and my house is covered with Mediterranean Geckos from years of my kids catching them in Miami and releasing them at home. Every Spring they emerge from wherever and breed, producing young each Fall.
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by lanceheads on January 18, 2010
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There a a problem with that, I don't think Burmese burrow and the native animals of Virginia, South Carolina, etc, don't dig burrows wide or deep enough to support and adult Burmese.
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