Posted on 07/01/2009 10:45:06 AM PDT by cyn
OXFORD, Fla. -- A two-year-old girl was strangled by a python at her family's home in Oxford.
It is unknown whether the snake was a pet and how the child came in contact with the animal.
Pythons can kill by wrapping themselves around a human.
Whit Gibbons, a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia, told the Associated Press that "A human is just another prey item to a python -- especially a small human.
"A 20-foot python, if it grabbed one of us, would bite us and then within just, instantly, seconds, it would be wrapped all the way around you and squeezing the life out of you," Gibbons said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission have responded to the scene and are investigating the child's death.
Oxford is northwest of Leesburg.
Fixed it.
But keeping one with a baby in the house is stupider than stupid.
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