Kagome100
03-30-2005, 10:18 AM
Shed skin sparks hunt for snake
Friday, 28 January, 2005, 05:46 GMT
The shed skin and two eggs of a snake have been found in a residential street in East Sussex, leading to fears that a python could be on the loose.
They were found in a back garden in Leicester Villas in Hove, three months after notices went up alerting the public that a snake had gone missing.
The posters about the missing pregnant Burmese python that had escaped from a home nearby were thought to be a hoax.
Snake expert Jeremy Adams, who saw the skin, said: "My hunch is it is dead."
The assistant keeper of natural sciences at the Booth Museum, in Brighton, said he believed the cold winter weather would have killed the python.
He added that he could not confirm if it was the skin of a Burmese python, or when it might have been shed.
Burmese pythons feed on rats, mice and small animals, and can reach more than 20ft in length in the warm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4214089.stm
Friday, 28 January, 2005, 05:46 GMT
The shed skin and two eggs of a snake have been found in a residential street in East Sussex, leading to fears that a python could be on the loose.
They were found in a back garden in Leicester Villas in Hove, three months after notices went up alerting the public that a snake had gone missing.
The posters about the missing pregnant Burmese python that had escaped from a home nearby were thought to be a hoax.
Snake expert Jeremy Adams, who saw the skin, said: "My hunch is it is dead."
The assistant keeper of natural sciences at the Booth Museum, in Brighton, said he believed the cold winter weather would have killed the python.
He added that he could not confirm if it was the skin of a Burmese python, or when it might have been shed.
Burmese pythons feed on rats, mice and small animals, and can reach more than 20ft in length in the warm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4214089.stm