ancaman baru dari python yang membunuh Siberian husky berat 60-pon
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• Craig Pittman, Penulis Times
Selasa, September 10, 2013 12:19
Panggilan pertama untuk operator 911 Miami-Dade . Sebuah python telah menggulung dirinya di sekitar leher hewan peliharaan keluarga, Siberian husky 60-pon bernama Duke.
Panggilan kedua, lima menit kemudian, terlambat. Duke telah mati.
Seorang off-duty fire captain dan reality TV star, Charles "Big Country" Seifert dari acara the Animal Planet show Swamp Wars, berhasil menangkap ular panjang 10-kaki, 38-pon. Dan bukan salah satu dari ribuan Piton Burma yang telah melanda Everglades selama 20 tahun dan menjadi masalah spesies invasif di Florida.
Apa yang membunuh Duke, lain, spesies yang membuat Floridians khawatir : se ekor python Afrika Utara / North African python , juga dikenal sebagai rock python , dari peternakan bebas di pinggiran kota Everglades.
"Ini bukan dari pet python dari seseorang," Carli Segelson dari the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission mengatakan pekan ini. Sebaliknya, katanya, "itu mungkin dari populasi liar."
"Sekarang kami takut untuk pergi ke luar," kata Michelle Rojas, 43, yang bersama dengan anaknya 22 tahun yang mencoba menarik anjing mereka dari ular ular , namun sia-sia. Dalam sembilan tahun dia tinggal di lingkungan itu, "ini adalah sesuatu yang tidak pernah diharapkan akan terjadi."
Dia mengatakan, dua anak-anaknya , usia 15 dan 12, mengalami trauma akibat menyaksikan hewan peliharaan kesayangan mereka dicekik sampai mati pada malam 30 Agustus. Dia dengan marah juga, menjelaskan, "Hal ini bisa saja terjadi pada salah satu dari anak-anak saya."
husky keduanya, Casper, yang dibesarkan bersama Duke. "Sekarang dia benar-benar sedih dan merindukan duke ," katanya.
Ahli biologi negara bagian mendapat laporan pertama tahun 2002 bahwa seseorang telah melihat se ekor North African python di timur dari Everglades National Park dan selatan Tamiami Trail. Tidak sampai 2009 mereka mampu mendokumentasikan bahwa sebuah koloni dari mereka tinggal di sana, kata Segelson.
Dalam empat tahun sejak ahli biologi negara telah menangkap 27 North African pythons di daerah itu, termasuk dua ular remaja - tanda lain bahwa mereka telah berkembang biak, katanya . Kemudian pada 30 Agustus terjadi serangan di halaman belakang yang menewaskan Duke.
Dari 26 spesies python, rock pythons memiliki reputasi yang sangat jahat / nasty reputation . Mereka begitu pemarah, "mereka datang keluar dari telur yang mencolok," kata Kenneth Krysko, herpetologis senior di Florida Museum of Natural History di Gainesville, kepada National Geographic pada tahun 2009. "Ini salah satu hewan yang ganas."
Dalam rentang aslinya di Afrika sub-Sahara, rock python makan binatang seperti antelop, warthogs dan kuntul / herons , tapi setidaknya ada dua laporan diverifikasi serangan terhadap manusia di alam liar. Se ekor rock python yang melarikan diri dari sebuah toko hewan peliharaan Kanada bulan lalu menyerang dua anak laki-laki yang sedang tidur, usia 4 dan 6.
Akibat kematian Duke, Segelson mengatakan, " membiarkan orang tahu bahwa kita ingin mendapatkan laporan mengenai penampakan ular tersebut dan juga memberikan tips keselamatan dasar tentang apa yang harus dilakukan jika Anda melihat mereka. "
Dia menambahkan bahwa "sangat penting untuk dicatat bahwa ular-ular piton umumnya tidak menyerang manusia kecuali mereka diprovokasi, tapi Anda harus mengawasi anak-anak dan mengawasi hewan peliharaan berukuran kecil."
Rojas mengatakan dia berada di dalam rumah sekitar pukul 10 malam dan mendengar sesuatu yang terdengar seperti menjerit, jadi dia lari ke luar. "Itu adalah anjing," katanya. Kedengarannya sangat aneh. Karena ular sekitar tenggorokannya hingga terdengar tidak seperti biasanya ."
Dia dan anaknya mencoba mencongkel ular , katanya, kemudian mencoba menggunakan gunting kebun , tetapi tidak membuat ular melonggarkan cengkeramannya. " terlalu kuat," katanya.
Setelah Seifert menangkap ular, petugas pemadam kebakaran menemukan dua luka gigitan di leher, menunjukkan telah terjadi pertarungan - dan memunculkan pertanyaan tentang yang memulai pertama, menurut Kapten Jeff Fobb dari Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom One unit, yang merespon untuk semua keadaan darurat yang berhubungan dengan ular.
"Sulit untuk mengetahui apakah ular yang menyerang anjing," kata Fobb. "Seekor ular akan punya kesulitan memakan anjing dengan ukuran tersebut , jadi mungkin merupakan langkah defensif" untuk menyerang anjing.
apapun , Fobb mengatakan, "itu menjadi sebuah perhatian."
Times researcher Caryn Baird , kontribusi untuk laporan ini. Craig Pittman bisa dihubungi di craig@tampabay.com.
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New python menace kills
60-pound Siberian husky
Tuesday,
September 10, 2013 12:19pm
The first call to Miami-Dade's 911 operator was frantic. A python had wrapped
itself around the neck of the family pet, a 60-pound Siberian husky named Duke.
The snake was choking the life out of the dog.The second call, five minutes later, said fire-rescue officials were too late. Duke was dead.
An off-duty fire captain and reality TV star, Charles "Big Country" Seifert of the Animal Planet show Swamp Wars, managed to capture the 10-foot-long, 38-pound snake. It wasn't one of the thousands of Burmese pythons that have plagued the Everglades for 20 years and become the poster child for Florida's invasive species problems.
What killed Duke was another, nastier species for Floridians to worry about: a North African python, also known as a rock python, breeding freely in the suburbs at the edge of the Everglades.
"This doesn't appear to be someone's pet python," Carli Segelson of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said this week. Instead, she said, "it was probably from that wild population."
"Now we're afraid to go outside," said Michelle Rojas, 43, who along with her 22-year-old son tried to pull the snake off their dog, to no avail. In nine years of living in that neighborhood, "this is something I never would've expected to happen."
She said her two younger children, ages 15 and 12, were traumatized by watching their beloved pet strangled to death the night of Aug. 30. She's upset too, explaining, "This thing could've gotten one of my kids."
Her second husky, Casper, grew up with Duke. "Now he's really sad and missing him," she said.
State biologists first got a report in 2002 that someone had spotted a North African python east of Everglades National Park and south of the Tamiami Trail. Not until 2009 were they able to document that a colony of them was living there, Segelson said.
In the four years since, she said, state biologists have captured 27 North African pythons in that area, including two juveniles — another sign that they're breeding. Then came the Aug. 30 backyard attack that killed Duke.
Of the 26 species of pythons, rock pythons have an especially nasty reputation. They are so ill-tempered, "they come out of the egg striking," Kenneth Krysko, senior herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, told National Geographic in 2009. "This is just one vicious animal."
In its native range in sub-Saharan Africa, the rock python eats such animals as antelopes, warthogs and herons, but there are at least two verified reports of attacks on humans in the wild. A rock python that had escaped from a Canadian pet store was blamed last month for the asphyxiation of two sleeping boys, ages 4 and 6.
As a result of Duke's death, Segelson said, "we do have people out today canvassing in that area, letting people know that we would like to get reports about any sightings of these snakes and also giving out basic safety tips on what to do if you see one."
She added that "it's important to note that rock pythons don't generally attack humans unless they're provoked, but you should supervise children and keep an eye on small pets."
Rojas said she was inside the house about 10 p.m. and heard something that sounded like screaming, so she ran outside. "It was the dog," she said. "He was screaming. It sounded so weird. Because the snake was around his throat he couldn't sound like normal."
She and her son tried prying the python loose, she said, then tried using garden shears on it, but nothing would make the snake loosen its death grip. "It was just too strong," she said.
After Seifert captured the snake, firefighters discovered it had two bite wounds on its neck, suggesting there had been a battle — and raising questions about who struck first, according to Capt. Jeff Fobb of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom One unit, which responds to all snake-related emergencies. Fobb also stars on Swamp Wars.
"It's difficult to tell if the snake attacked the dog," Fobb said. "A snake would've had trouble eating a dog that size, so it might've been a defensive move" to attack the dog.
Either way, Fobb said, "it's a cause for concern."
Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Craig Pittman can be reached at craig@tampabay.com.
