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== Poor Science ==
I find this whole paragraph very offensive and riddled with flaws:
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*1. This Python not only occurs in rainforest areas. There are many more (mentions in the article a bit below)!
*2. 2. In nature the average length of Python molurus bivittatus is 3,7 meters.<ref name=Smith> M. A. Smith: ''Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. III, Serpentes''. In: ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region''. Tailor and Frances, Ltd., London 1943, S. 102-109</ref><ref name= Campden> S. M. Campden-Main: ''A field guide to the snakes of South Vietnam''. City of Washington 1970, S. 8-9.</ref> Specimen of more than 4 meters are uncommon<ref name=SaintGirons>H. Saint Girons: ''Les serpents du Cambodge''. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Série A 1972, S. 40-41.</ref>, such of 5 Meters are rare<ref name=Deuve> J. Deuve: ''Serpents du Laos''. Mémoire O.R.S.T.O.M. Nr. 39, Paris 1970, S. 61-62, 65-66.</ref> and such toward 6 Meters – like a specimen form Cooch Behar with 5,8 meters <ref name=Nat.Hist.Soc.1912>F. Wall: ''A popular treatise on the common Indian snakes – The Indian Python''. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society Band 21, 1912, S. 447–476; [http://www.archive.org/details/populartreatiseo00wall online ab S. 419].</ref> – are very rare<ref name=SaintGirons/>! There are several measurements from the past of more than 7 meters. But those were with the utmost probability exaggerations, stretched skins or confusion between Python molurus bivittatus and Python reticulatus. At the other hand there exist dwarf forms on Java, Bali and Sulawesi. At Bali they reach an average length of 2 meters<ref name=McKay>J. L. McKay: ''A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Bali''. Krieger Publishing Company 2006, {{ISBN
*3. The values of the Guinness Book about „Baby“ are doubted by several herpetologists! Especially the length of this specimen was just about 6,5 Meters!
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Ann Saudi Med. 2001 Sep-Nov;21(5-6):352-3.
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Two children presented with signs and symptoms of gastroenteritis. Salmonella chameleon was isolated from the stool of one child and also from an iguana kept in the home as a pet. Salmonella arizonae was isolated from the stool of the other child and also from four snakes sharing the same household. Exotic reptiles are unsuitable pets to share the home environment with infants.
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'''S. enterica subsp. arizonae,''' though an uncommon human pathogen, '''is a common organism in reptiles, particularly snakes.''' The prevalence of human infections is probably underestimated since the gastrointestinal problems they generate were considered usually benign. However, this pathogen should be considered in the differential diagnoses of patients with sepsis and severe gastroenteritis who have a history of contact with reptiles or ingestion of snake meat preparations, e.g., as powdered capsules. '''Young children are at a particular risk''' of acquiring such infections. Therefore, proper history should be obtained in such cases. Ownership of reptiles should be discouraged, especially in households with children less then 5 years of age.
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... '''corn snakes, pythons, and boas have also been identified as '''sources of Salmonella infections''' ...
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::OK, so it can happen. However, personal experience (several hundred bites from several dozen species, wild and captive) and experiences of those I know in the reptile community (many of whom have 3-4 decades of experience and the many bites that go with that) suggest that it is very rare, especially compared to conventional means of Salmonella transmission (failing to wash hands after contact with reptiles and/or their waste, ditto for non-reptile sources like raw chicken). Plus, if we're being fair, we should probably add several hundred zoonotic diseases to the pages [[cat]] and [[dog]]. I mean, what's more deserving of a warning, an upset stomach from your snake, or your cat giving you a [[Toxoplasma|brain parasite that alters your personality]]?
::Technically it can happen. Technically, you can be killed if you hit a deer while riding a motorcycle. But the odds of either happening, at all or as compered to other mortality/morbidity events, is so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 20:47, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
:::The link to the CDC article above citing an incidence of 93,000 cases of salmonella from contact with reptiles and amphibians is no longer valid (page not found error). However, I was able to find a summary of that article in another article, available [http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192240&resultClick=1 here], mentioning this rate— and explaining that it represents approx. 7% of annual cases of salmonella contamination in the US. If we are to accept that 7% figure, it begins to seem like sufficient reason to include mention of the bacterium somewhere, but the summary I found did not mention the specific species most prevalent as vectors, and I don't see any use in mentioning salmonella in every article about a reptile or an amphibian. Such a fact ''could'', however, be situated in the article on [[reptile]]s and/ or the one on [[amphibian]]s generally, I should think. Whatever one or another person's actual experience may be, a national rate of 7% of all salmonella cases in the US is large enough to warrant mention. [[User:KDS4444|<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span></span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen"><sup>''Talk''</sup></span>]] 10:15, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
::::The 7% figure, which I'm extremely skeptical of, is only from an abstract, not a peer reviewed article, and as such, is not a valid source. (Seriously, citing an abstract in a JAMA article? Any good reviewer should have put a stop to that.) Given that only 3% of the US has pet reptiles, and that typically only kids are affected by it, I'm very skeptical that these cases represent even 7% of a national annual total of almost 100k cases, especially considering the dangerously unregulated state of much of our food supply due to anti-regulatory zealotry. I'm not ruling it out, but I want to see the methods myself before that number is treated as valid. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 17:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
== Capitalization ==
The article should be retitled “Burmese python” (lowercase ''p''), to agree with standard rules of capitalization, namely that common names of individual species (or subspecies) are not capitalized.--[[User:Solomonfromfinland|Solomonfromfinland]] ([[User talk:Solomonfromfinland|talk]]) 10:41, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
:I concur, and will attempt a page move to reflect this. [[User:KDS4444|<
== are they edible? recipes? ==
in any given animal section, i would like to know if we can eat them. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.130.168.139|72.130.168.139]] ([[User talk:72.130.168.139|talk]]) 21:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
: All snakes are edible by humans provided they're properly prepard (there is a risk of parasites in some snakes if not adequately cooked, and obviously venemous snakes require proper handling).
: I'm a vegan so I'll leave any snake "recipes" to someone with more flexible ethics. [[Special:Contributions/69.65.91.78|69.65.91.78]] ([[User talk:69.65.91.78|talk]]) 08:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
== Requested move ==
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The result of the move request was: '''page moved'''.{{RMnac}} [[User:Raykyogrou0|<span style="color:blue">Raykyogrou0</span>]] <small>''([[User talk:Raykyogrou0|<span style="color:black">Talk</span>]])''</small> 13:13, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
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[[:Burmese Python]] → {{no redirect|Burmese python}} – Article was moved away from "Burmese python" to "Burmese Python" by an editor who stated he/ she wanted to make it more consistent with other reptile articles. The other python articles appear to exist under various species names rather than common names, but in any case I could find no justification or pattern for naming this particular animal "Burmese Python" rather than "Burmese python" ("python" not being a proper noun in this instance). Another editor (see above) has also noticed this irregularity, and Wikipedia [[WP:FAUNA|naming conventions for fauna]] suggest that no capital letter should be present on any word other than the first in a case like this. cf. [[Gila monster]], [[Australian water dragon]], [[King cobra]], etc. [[User:KDS4444|<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span></span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen"><sup>''Talk''</sup></span>]] 09:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
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== Dwarf Burmese Python ==
Please note that a new page on the [[Dwarf Burmese Python]] had recently been created. Editors may wish to assess whether that page is best left standing alone, or whether its contents woukld be more effective if merged into this page. [[User:Nick Moyes|Nick Moyes]] ([[User talk:Nick Moyes|talk]]) 08:49, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
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== bibliography for invasiveness extension ==
2009. "Florida: Reptile Species Ban Considered." New York Times, August 06. 17. Academic Search Alumni Edition, EBSCOhost (accessed May 2, 2018).
Walters, T. M., Mazzotti, F. J., & Fitz, H. C. (2016). Habitat selection by the invasive species burmese python in Southern Florida. Journal of Herpetology, 50(1), 50-56.
Mazzotti, F. J., Rochford, M., Vinci, J., Jeffery, B. M., Eckles, J. K., Dove, C., & Sommers, K. P. (2016). Implications of the 2013 Python Challenge® for Ecology and Management of Python molorus bivittatus (Burmese Python) in Florida. Southeastern Naturalist, 15(sp8), 63-74.
python, in zoology. (2017). In P. Lagasse, & Columbia University, The Columbia encyclopedia (7th ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from https://jwupvdz.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/python_in_zoology/0?institutionId=8945
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== Hawaii record ==
Hello {{ping|Romannpomsonth}} This record is not verifiable by others. You can read about this [[WP:V]] requirement. [[User:Invasive Spices|Invasive Spices]] ([[User talk:Invasive Spices#top|talk]]) 5 January 2023 (UTC)
== Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2023 ==
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A 19 foot specimen was discovered in the wild in the US State of Florida. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187497592/record-breaking-burmese-python-longest-florida [[Special:Contributions/2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B|2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B]] ([[User talk:2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B|talk]]) 04:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
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