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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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I hate how even if some animals like such as Ball Pythons and Horseshoe Crabs where to be stoped caught in wild.stupid people like poachers and likes of them will hunt such species to extinction in wild.Because such species has no value anymore.how to stop this?

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Is there anyway at all? submitted by /u/Ben10-fan-525 [link] [comments]

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Birding across the north of Australia in July

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Flock Bronzewings were in the hundreds through this area and Nankeen Kestrels hunted small prey through the grass. We saw three snakes in two days and one was a very large Black-headed Python moving across the highway as we were unable to slow down sufficiently to photograph it. Australian Bustard. Cattle can be anywhere!

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