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🐍🥳 Florida's epic saga of snake-wrangling brilliance hits a new level as they declare #victory over precisely zero pythons! 🎉 Meanwhile, their website's security policy is harder to crack than catching a python in the #Everglades. 🕵️‍♂️🔒
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-eradicate-invasive-pythons-florida-stunning.html #Florida #Pythons #SnakeWrangling #SecurityPolicy #HackerNews #ngated

Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-eradicate-invasive-pythons-florida-stunning.html

#HackerNews #invasiveSpecies #Florida #Pythons #WildlifeConservation #Milestone #EnvironmentalProtection

I just like #pythons way of assigning default values for params. In #JavaScript its just always way more difficult and ugly.

def fn(x, y=42):
pass

#simple #beautiful

I was surprised to learn heat-sensitive pits evolved four independent times in boas. (And the heat sensitive pits of vipers and pythons are two more independent evolutions of heat sensitive pits, but I already knew about those. )

https://herphighlights.podbean.com/e/228-why-do-pythons-have-heat-pits/

#boas
#pythons
#reptiles
#snakes

Who could possibly object to knowing more about how #Python's variables work? Happily, @trey.io has some pointers on pointers! Join us at #NBPy on April 26th & 27th: pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2025/ta... 🎟️ nbpy.link/tickets

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Here are some other animals that I also have had the pleasure of keeping.
I got my first pet snake when I was 12 years old, a garter snake that I named Henry. For about 25 years after that, I kept and bred many species of reptiles, and among them, a pair of Borneo Short-tailed Pythons. They produced offspring twice, one of which is pictured here. The second picture shows their mother.

I don't keep snakes currently, as I prefer to focus on keeping arachnids now, and mainly tarantulas, but I did enjoy keeping snakes and other reptiles for so many years. It's an exciting and fun hobby that I can recommend for those who have to time and space to do so.

#reptiles #reptilebreeding #snakes #pythons

@Tarnport

Several answers…

Raccoons are mostly on the beach sites. Never seen them on/near chickees. They are after both food and fresh water.

Wildlife researchers say 90+% of the small mammals in the #Everglades are gone due to the #pythons! I don’t think this applies to the beach raccoons tho.

Lane Bay is a great place to camp!

Just to be clear: #Hobie still sells the “Revolution 13” #kayak model. Drive is much improved. I recommend anyone who is considering buying one to “downgrade” to the standard drive (does not have reverse). The reversible drive costs more, adds little value, and has many small moving parts that are impossible to maintain in the field.

Two #pythons were abandoned in rural areas of #Devon SW #England (they are not native to this country). Both have been recovered to a local zoo (one was even previously rescued from the roadside by a motorist, who took it home with him to look after before calling the zoo!) #snakes

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-09-02/pythons-found-abandoned-on-country-roads

Python alert -- not the coding kind.

"#Pythons thrive in warm climate — which is why they've quickly adapted here in the Everglades — and they keep spreading; milder winters have led to sightings further north."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burmese-pythons-florida-everglades-cull-challenge/

the latest common descent podcasts on Boas and Pythons, on Leaves, and on Alligators and Caimans have all been very good but I've been lax in posting about them.
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/07/20/episode-196-boas-and-pythons/
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/07/06/episode-195-leaves/
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2024/06/22/episode-194-alligators-and-caimans/

#boas
#pythons
#leaves
#alligators
#caimans
#reptiles
#plants
#commonDescent

bref vouala, si vous avez des e-mails chez #protonmail ou juste un paquet de fichiers eml j'ai un truc pour les filtrer et convertir en belle page html rangée dans l'ordre chronologique grâce à la pouissance des #pandas et des #pythons.

je suis sûr que ce sera utile plus d'une fois. et ça va bien plus vite de scripter ça que de copier coller des trucs dans une centaine d'endroits.

Breaking: Workers Bludgeon Pythons, Inflate Their Bodies for Gucci Owner’s Tannery

https://secure.petaasia.com/page/141578/action/1

#animals
#animal
#animalpetitions
#petitions
#animalrights
#takeaction
#cruelty
#animalcruelty #pythons #Gucci #Kering #exoticskins #exotic_skins #crocodiles #leather

Python Farming Could Provide The Most Sustainable Meat Yet

by @grrlscientist via @medium

#meat #sustainable #farming #pythons #SciComm https://grrlscientist.medium.com/python-farming-could-provide-the-most-sustainable-meat-yet-f911d830335f

10 years ago today we got this baby. My son came with me to see it. He was 3 at the time. I asked if we should get it and he said yeah, so we did. Guy selling it also had pythons for sale. But the kid said no to them. They were smart decisions.

#Trabi #DDR #trabiversary #pythons

A side view of a Trabant, affectionately known as Trabi, which were pretty common in East Germany, then unfairly scorned after German reunification when East Germans dumped them in favor of fancy western cars. Well, this one’s more than 50 years old and still driving like new.

Max Matza: »A Colombian luxury #handbag #designer who pleaded guilty to #smuggling purses made of the #skins of protected #vleesmolen reptiles has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Nancy Gonzalez, who has made handbags carried by Sex and the City actors and Britney Spears, was sentenced on Monday in a Miami federal court.

Gonzalez, 71, broke an international #treaty by illegally importing bags made from #caimans and #pythons.«

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68879020.amp