Burmese Python Invasion! Snakes on a Campus?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the office, on Monday morning I walk in and there by the printer stands campus newsguy Bill Giduz ’74, mongering fear about Burmese pythons snaking their way up from south Florida to eat us up. The article he was waving, “Will Florida’s Burmese pythons move north? How far?” in the Christian Science Monitor, quotes the lead researcher of a major recent scientific foray into the swamplands of South Florida and South Carolina—none other than our own Associate Professor of Biology Mike Dorcas: “[T]here certainly is a possibility that pythons could survive in South Carolina and possibly even farther north.”
Oh. I see. South Carolina. Well, why didn’t you say so, Mike?
But seriously, folks, you’d better read the whole article. There’s even a link to a story called “Hybrid man-eating pythons? Florida is on alert.”
What’s in your crawlspace?
Click for Christian Science Monitor article featuring Associate Professor of Biology Mike Dorcas.
