Most readers of this magazine would prefer a speech to a pit of pythons.
Also having cut their teeth on Oxbridge satire, the Pythons chose their comic targets more carefully.
The Pythons will be playing aliens who grant wishes to humans, just to see what happens.
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This story of the Burmese pythons seems like an appropriate metaphor for our time.
Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 23ft (7m) long, eat small mammals, birds and alligators.
The Florida Everglades are reeling from an explosion in the number of deadly Burmese pythons.
By living and sleeping high off the ground, they avoid the clouded leopards and pythons down below.
As well as the lack of sustainability, the report highlights cruel practices in the killing of the pythons.
Invasive pythons have been able to disappear into the Everglades for a reason.
While the pythons can run to double-digit lengths, Mazzotti said the average snake runs about 6 to 9 feet.
State wildlife officials say there may be as many as 100, 000 Burmese pythons living in the vast swamps outside Miami.
The Florida pythons have probably not experienced temperatures as cold as those in January this year before, say the scientists.
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While Milligan's sketches often faded into incomprehensibility, the Pythons' tighter material was saved from a similar fate by Terry Gilliam's animation links.
To open the exhibition, the mall invited two models wearing orchid-strewn hats to pose for photographs with pythons coiled around their arms.
And if the Pythons let Williams off his leash, he could very well add a few four-letter words to the Python vocabulary.
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We were careful to watch for black-headed pythons as we walked.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has banned the importation of Burmese pythons, along with three other exotic snake species and their eggs.
The pythons began turning up in the Everglades in 1979, most likely abandoned by pet owners when the snakes got too big to handle.
While the pythons can run to double-digit lengths, University of Florida wildlife ecologist Frank Mazzotti said the average snake runs about 6 to 9 feet.
That suggests that, counter-intuitively, more pythons might survive further north, where temperatures are cooler but there are more artificial habitats containing warm places to hide.
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That raises the possibility that Burmese pythons might better cope with cold conditions in the future, particularly snakes that are better adapted genetically to the cold.
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The report argues that killing pythons on the current scale is unsustainable - many of the wild pythons are killed before their reach the reproductive stage.
As usual, the Pythons were on to something extremely profound here, even if the points are being made in the film by people who push around filth for a living.
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Though many invasive aliens are notorious for the harm they bring (pythons in Florida, cane toads in Australia, brown tree snakes in Guam), many others enhance the local nature scene.
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"Thanks to the determination of Python Challenge competitors, we are able to gather invaluable information that will help refine and focus combined efforts to control pythons in the Everglades, " commission executive director Nick Wiley said.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) A 7-foot-long boa constrictor, two ball pythons and a monitor lizard were stolen from a Central California science museum by a man who was caught on camera throwing the reptiles into a plastic trash bag.
Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.
These particular snakes are believed to have gotten their start in the Everglades through the well-intentioned, but ill-considered, action of a few Americans who thought they were doing the humane thing by turning their pet pythons loose in the swampy wilderness.
Among the rental items: a two-meter-long snake, an orangutan and some lizards and tarantulas. (The island is home to such creatures as pythons, macaques and fruit bats.) While the castaways need to be mentally and physically fit, wilderness experience isn't a must.
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