That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from the Wild

Posted by 101carl on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @01:15AM
from the mobile.nytimes.com dept.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/science/illegal-wildlife-reptiles-amphibians.html

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by wolco on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:33PM (#16815287)

I wonder if the sumbitter was looking for the language Python and came across this by accident vs reading nytimes website and finding this.

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by ubittibu on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:08AM (#16820493)

My same thought

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by nickpeterson on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:07AM (#16818164)

These petstores need to start using virtualenv so they stop mixing up pythons.

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by sunstone on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:43PM (#16825172)

If the python was snatched from the wild in Florida then all is well and good as pythons are invasive species there.

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by uptown on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:23PM (#16816295)

Very common with parrots too, unfortunately.

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by matthewmcg on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:57PM (#16814880)

from Indonesia import green_python

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by noonespecial on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:24PM (#16815184)

Here in Florida, we have the opposite problem. The pets were released into the wild...

Now in Florida, the pythons import you.

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by alephnan on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:12PM (#16816219)

This reminded me of the Cobra effect[1] where in an episode of the Simpsons[2] they introduce snakes to population control, but this causes cascading effects in the ecosystem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by goldenkey on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:59AM (#16819347)

Here is a link to the video clip:

https://youtu.be/f8jlwEPCI5A

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Re:That Python in the Pet Store May Have Been Snatched from ... by rememberlenny on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:20PM (#16815797)

Classic global variable problem.

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