Retroviral Infections in Two Albino Burmese Pythons ( Python molurus bivittatus )

To address the ongoing debate over the impact of invasive species on native terrestrial wildlife, we conducted a large-scale experiment to test the hypothesis that invasive Burmese pythons ( Python molurus bivittatus ) were a cause of the precipitous decline of mammals in Everglades National Park (ENP). Evidence linking pythons to mammal declines has been indirect and there are reasons to question whether pythons, or any predator, could have caused the precipitous declines seen across a range of mammalian functional groups. Experimentally manipulating marsh rabbits, we found that pythons accounted for 77% of rabbit mortalities within 11 months of their translocation to ENP and that python predation appeared to preclude the persistence of rabbit populations in ENP. On control sites, outside of the park, no rabbits were killed by pythons and 71% of attributable marsh rabbit mortalities were classified as mammal predations. Burmese pythons pose a serious threat to the faunal communities and ecological functioning of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which will probably spread as python populations expand their range.

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Osteitis deformans (Paget’s disease) in a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) – A case report

The Veterinary Journal ◽

10.1016/j.tvjl.2006.11.012 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 174 (3) ◽

pp. 669-672 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Rosario Preziosi ◽

Alessia Diana ◽

Daniela Florio ◽

Andrea Gustinelli ◽

Giordano Nardini

Keyword(s):

Case Report ◽

Paget’S Disease ◽

Paget's Disease ◽

Osteitis Deformans ◽

Python Molurus ◽

Python Molurus Bivittatus

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Successful treatment of Ophionyssus natricis with afoxolaner in two Burmese pythons ( Python molurus bivittatus )

Veterinary Dermatology ◽

10.1111/vde.12898 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. 496

Author(s):

Braulio A. Fuantos Gámez ◽

Camilo Romero Núñez ◽

Galia Sheinberg Waisburd ◽

Linda G. Bautista Gómez ◽

Enrique Yarto Jaramillo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Successful Treatment ◽

Python Molurus ◽

Python Molurus Bivittatus

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Rapid Microsatellite Marker Development Using Next Generation Pyrosequencing to Inform Invasive Burmese Python—Python molurus bivittatus—Management

International Journal of Molecular Sciences ◽

10.3390/ijms14034793 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 4793-4804 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Margaret Hunter ◽

Kristen Hart

Keyword(s):

Microsatellite Marker ◽

Marker Development ◽

Next Generation ◽

Python Molurus ◽

Python Molurus Bivittatus

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Snout temperatures of reptiles, with special reference to the changes during feeding behaviour in Python molurus bivittatus (Serpentes, Boidae): a study using infrared radiation

Amphibia-Reptilia ◽

10.1163/156853883x00265 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 49-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

H.A.J. in den Bosch

Keyword(s):

Feeding Behaviour ◽

Measuring System ◽

Temporal Region ◽

Heat Distribution ◽

Complete Darkness ◽

The Subject ◽

Python Molurus ◽

Differential Increase ◽

Python Molurus Bivittatus ◽

Dead Prey

AbstractThe AGA Thermovision 750® infrared measuring system is used to measure temperatures and to present thermal images of reptiles. Because the system records only the infrared that emanates from the subject itself, the process may be carried out in complete darkness. Evaporation from the wet nasal mucosal surface and the velocity and amount of air over this tissue, results in the reptiles tested having a distinctly cooler snout as compared to the other parts of the head and body. Body temperature is found to be above ambient temperature. Constriction and swallowing changes the heat distribution in Python molurus bivittatus. There is a differential increase in temperature and the cooler snout disappears. Afterwards a differential cooling of the head and body occurs and a colder spot in the anterior temporal region is noted. These phenomena are discussed; the cooler spot is attributed to the action of the anterior temporal gland. No qualitative differences in behavioural elements in feeding behaviour in dark vs light are observed. In the general feeding pattern the action ofappression is interpreted as hearing, and snout pushing after swallowing, as a putting back in place ofjaw and skull elements. The hypothesis that temperature differences over the dead prey (mouse) are of importance in head searching is investigated. A clear heat gradient persisting long enough to be of use to heat-sensitive snakes is found.

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