Is the photograph showing a 55 foot snake found in a forest in China a hoax? It was initially posted on the website of the People’s Daily, the official China Communist Party newspaper. It claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road. I have to […]
It looks like things are being put into motion that could eventually lead to making exotic snake sales illegal. A U.S. Geological Survey just released a report stating that exotic snakes pose a serious risk to natural wildlife. The study specifically mentioned Burmese pythons, boa constrictors, yellow anacondas, reticulated pythons, and others. Their belief is […]
Florida State Senator Eleanor Sobel plans to file a bill that would crush the Burmese python pet market by making it illegal to own this snake. Senator Sobel says it will “save our fragile environment and the people of Florida.” For the many snake lovers like myself, I think this is outrageous. How many people […]
Who would send a package of live snakes to someone? Doesn’t that sound cruel all the way around? Well, this very thing happened near Cincinnati, Ohio last week. The suspicious package was discovered when FedEx employees saw a parcel moving. The police were called and an officer confirmed there were boa constrictors in the package. […]
The Python Patrol in the Florida Keys reads meters with one eye and look for snakes with the other. A team of utility workers, wildlife officials, park rangers and police officers are trying to keep Burmese pythons from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys. Officials say the pythons, which can grow to 20 feet […]
For almost 30 years, the Ellen Trout Zoo and director Gordon Henley have worked to bring back North America’s rarest snake, the Louisiana pine snake. They haven’t had much luck yet, and experts say the snake may become extinct if efforts to save it don’t show success soon.
In the early 1980s, Ellen Trout Zoo became […]