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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade. Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. The best chance to catch a Python is during a cold front.

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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

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For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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Southern Boobook near Broome

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For those of you that miss me mentioning some of the other wildlife around Broome I think I should mention the Black-headed Python we also saw last week! Black-headed Python measuring. Black-headed Pythons are only in the north of Australia. The snake had sadly been hit by a vehicle and was off the edge of the highway.

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Followup: Witherspoon Will Stop Carrying Python Purse

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I don't know what she's going to do with it, but at least she'll stop carrying it. She's supposedly a vegetarian and is friends with Walk the Line co-star Joaquin Phoenix who is a huge animal rights activist and vegan. I still don't understand what she was doing. She knew it was an animal skin.and she spent $4,000 on it? PETA is very happy.

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Every sperm is sacred

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Meanwhile, until those answers are found, just relax and let Monty Python explain it all. The research doesn’t fully explain why “supernumerary” (as if they were extras in an opera!) sperm are crucial to the development of avian life. But it points to new areas ripe for investigation.

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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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To quote Camus again (The myth of Sisyphos) at the massive risk of appearing intellectually pretentious, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” (Of course, there is always the Monty Python alternative of just stating “And now for something completely different).

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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

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(Barn Owls weigh about a pound); 2) access fact-filled sites like the Peregrine Fund or the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ; or 3) call any raptor rehabilitation center, and whoever answers the phone will tell you that the information on Facebook is bunk.

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