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One of the largest snakes in the world, the Burmese python is a nonvenomous constrictor found primarily in and around the Everglades ecosystem in south Florida.
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Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
Staff Pick: Boa constrictor who has lived alone births 14 baby snakes
Baby rainbow boa constrictors from Ronaldo.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 July 2024
Boa constrictors, which are native to South and Central America, are now common on the west side of the island.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
Boa constrictors are large, nonvenomous snakes native to Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
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Lauren Ferrer, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
Staff Pick: Boa constrictor who has lived alone births 14 baby snakes
Baby rainbow boa constrictors from Ronaldo.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 July 2024
Boa constrictors, which are native to South and Central America, are now common on the west side of the island.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
Boa constrictors are large, nonvenomous snakes native to Central and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
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One sign is the sheer number of boas in Cabo Rojo and Cambalache.Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
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The two-wheeled boa lacing system ratchets to just the right tension so the shoe ends up feeling custom designed for your own foot.Stephanie Pearson, WIRED, 31 May 2021
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While rattlesnake bites are venomous and potentially dangerous, fatalities are relatively low, especially when medical attention is received quickly after a bite.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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An Arizona girl nearly lost her leg after going 30 hours without realizing she had been bitten by a rattlesnake, according to her family.Abigail Adams, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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Share [Findings] Interviews with reptile poachers in southwestern Balochistan indicated that the Caspian cobra, the desert monitor, the Iranian mastigure, Maynard’s longnose sand snake, the Persian spider gecko, and the Tartar sand boa were being captured for use by snake charmers.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Hahn is never funnier than when Agatha is trying to summon some of her own swagger while forced to wear Agnes’s drab clothes—a cobra stuck in the mundane form of a hamster.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
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Pereira will play a character called The Butcher, and bring his set of skills – including anaconda chokes and roundhouse kicks – to his meaty role.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
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Pereira will play a character called The Butcher, and bring his set of skills to the role — including anaconda chokes and roundhouse kicks.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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Unlike logo hardware, these python styles are a Khaite signature—understated to most, but instantly recognizable to those with a fashion eye.Madeline Fass, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2024
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Snake handler Drew Godfrey, who works for Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in the Australian territory of Queensland, had the task of removing two coastal carpet pythons, also known as Morelia spilota mcdowelli, from a customer's toilet bowl.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Australian Museum in Sydney said on its website that copperhead snakes have powerful neurotoxic venom and that a bite can be fatal without medical attention.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
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Snakes native to western North Carolina include the copperhead, said Duke’s Dr. Sean Bush, an emergency medicine physician.NBC News, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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That was when, along the margins of the Juma, the bushmaster snapped into view.Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
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Bushmaster The funky blues-rock band wraps up the Falls Church Concerts in the Park series.Sarah Lane, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
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The death adder’s plight illustrates another important point: In a 2013 review of the relevant scientific literature to date, Robertson and his colleagues concluded that exotic species are the single largest cause of evolutionary traps.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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This attitude poses a threat to Europe’s adder populations, already on the decline because of habitat destruction.ByPhie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Constrictor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constrictor. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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