Burmese pythons are an invasive species in parts of Florida.

It's a pretty rare paper that includes providing transfusions to Burmese pythons.

Note to fashion-minded herpetologists: Burmese pythons are always in style.

This often leads to overfeeding, and obesity-related problems are common in captive Burmese pythons.

Burmese pythons are wrestling alligators in the Everglades.

Also likely originating from human captivity, Burmese pythons have been observed near the park's boundary along the mainland.

Some animals include dart frogs, Burmese pythons, snakes, kimono dragons, and chameleons.

Among reptile species there are crocodiles, geckos, cobras, Burmese pythons, and turtles.

A secondary problem with feeding Burmese pythons is that many owners believe if a snake acts hungry, that it should be fed.

As Burmese pythons are opportunistic feeders, they will eat almost any time food is offered, and often act hungry even when they have recently eaten.

Burmese pythons eat amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals that vary in size from small rodents to deer.

Burmese pythons are native to many parts of Southeast Asia and southern regions of China.

Burmese pythons in South Florida typically eat rodents, but can feed also on fish, amphibians, other reptiles, and birds.

On a hot day recently, two owners of Burmese pythons took their six-foot-long pets for a swim in the Washington Square fountain.

In the 1970s and 1980s the disease was most commonly observed in Burmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus.

As constrictors, Burmese pythons seize and wrap themselves around their prey, suffocating them, then proceed to consume them entirely.

It has been suggested that the current number of Burmese pythons in the Florida everglades has reached a minimum viable population and become an invasive species.

Specific breeds include rattlesnakes, iguanas, reticulated pythons, tarantulas, Burmese pythons and box turtles.

But the Burmese pythons are also "very hardy and feed very readily and have strong feeding responses," Mr. Taylor said.

Animals in this precinct include Komodo dragons, red pandas, Asian small-clawed otters, and Burmese pythons.

The animals left include waterfowl, 3 emus and all the zoo's reptiles, including 8 Burmese pythons, an anaconda and more than 12 Colombian red-tail boas.

Breeding at Paradise Wildlife Park has been successful, with the breeding of endangered species such as white lions, marmosets, tamarins, Burmese pythons and lovebirds.

Everglades National Park - 1.5 million acres of saw grass prairie, mangrove swamp and jungle - has become a haven for Burmese pythons, which scientists believe are reproducing there.

Writer interviews a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer who speculates that the storm might have distributed frogs, scorpions, and Burmese pythons as far as the Everglades.

While there have been observed events of predation by Burmese pythons on alligators and vice versa, there is currently no evidence of a net negative effect on alligator populations.