Last spring I had the pleasure of taking Behavioral and Physiological Ecology, a.k.a. “Superbio” at Colby. One of our lecture topics was climate change and its effects on behavior and physiology, and it came out that under some climate change scenarios, feral Burmese pythons could extend their range from the Southeast (they are illegally “released” into the Florida Everglades when they get to be to big as pets) up the coast to New England. And all of us thought of how crazy this would be, and then I realized they are called “Burmese” pythons because they are native to Burma . . . and Thailand. And then we all thought it would be really funny for me to see one in the wild. Tick that one off the list- this 2 meter python was spotted between Baan Ling and Baan Sip (House #10, where the farangs of Team Macaque live) last night! Just another good reason to carry a flashlight at night . . .
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