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angel148
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| SBP's wrote: | Sorry about that, it was 35K he sold it for not 30.
| Quote: | Zoo pays $35k for python Fluffy
13/01/2008 14:29 - (SA)
Columbus - Fluffy, a 7.3-meter python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
The zoo paid $35 000 to the snake's breeder in Oklahoma to keep the reticulated python on permanent display. While on loan last year, the python helped draw 1.53 million visitors, just under the zoo's attendance record of 1.56 million set in 2006, said Pete Fingerhut, the zoo's associate director.
Fluffy is about as long as a moving van and thick as a telephone pole.
Bob Clark, the breeder from Oklahoma City who raised the python from a hatchling, initially resisted the zoo's purchase offer but said he is happy with the outcome.
"I really love that snake; I think it's a special animal," he said. "It's so big and tame and wonderful. But I have to deal with the realities of life like everyone else. I like to have the money, and I know she's got a great place to live there."
The Columbus Zoo does not buy animals very often, said Executive Director Jerry Borin. Its animals generally come as exchanges from other zoos or through breeding loans or donations, he said.
Fluffy is on display in a 7.62m enclosure with a pool and a few plants, where he eats 4.54kg rabbits a week. In the wild, pythons native to Asia eat whatever they can catch, starting with mice and lizards when they are small and graduating to pigs and goats. There are a few reports of human victims.
The largest known reticulated python, named for the cross-hatching patterns on their skin, was 10m, when killed in 1912 in Indonesia.
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LOL, It was also a Retic, not a Burmese!!
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| angel148 wrote: |
LOL, It was also a Retic, not a Burmese!!
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LOL, I just saw that typo too.
Either way still a real beauty of a creature.
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johonny
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This pic is off his site and it is at least 10 years old. She is much bigger now.
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johonny
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| SBP's wrote: | This pic is off his site and it is at least 10 years old. She is much bigger now.
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wow that is a big retic 
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snakeypete
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meet fluffy 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VN-8c-W7Lk
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I didnt like that man who carried out the burmese python  couldnt answer a straight forward question  he kept changing the subject
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| johonny wrote: | | I didnt like that man who carried out the burmese python couldnt answer a straight forward question he kept changing the subject |
That guy was Jack Hanna. I have met him in person several times. He is always over energetic like that. I swear he has ADD. He turned the Columbus Zoo around in the 80's and early 90's as the Director. The same Zoo that just bought Fluffy. He single handedly saved that zoo from closing down.
He really is an amazingly knowledgeable guy when it comes to wild life.
You can read about him here http://www.jackhanna.com/
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