{"id":6932,"date":"2009-11-30T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T03:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2009-12-01T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:03:57","slug":"snake-captured-in-batiquitos-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6932","title":{"rendered":"Snake Captured In Batiquitos Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/burmese-python_t352.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/burmese-python_t352.jpg','popup','width=352,height=367,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/burmese-python_t352-tm.jpg\" height=\"208\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Burmese-Python T352\" \/><\/a>Two hikers who were cruising the shores of Batiquitos Lagoon in the shadow of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/aviara\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four Season&#8217;s Aviara<\/a><\/strong> spotted a five-foot long &#8220;Burmese python&#8221; today, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/30\/snakes-alive-python-found-in-local-lagoon\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Troy Keenan (pictured right), a volunteer for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.batiquitosfoundation.org\/newsite\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, was working in the foundation\u2019s nature center at the west end of the lagoon when the hikers reported their find. . . \u201cI kind of tiptoed into the pickle weed and saw it stretched out,\u201d Keenan said. He grabbed the snake\u2019s tail, put his baseball cap over its head and grabbed the reptile behind its neck. In a few moments, the python was in a trash bag and animal control was on its way. . . \u201cIt got my adrenaline up, let\u2019s put it that way,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good thing they got it when they did as Burmese pythons will eat anything and can live almost anywhere. Ever heard the story from the Florida Everglades about the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9600151\/\" target=\"_blank\">13 foot python that tried to eat a six foot long alligator<\/a><\/strong>? It didn&#8217;t go well for either animal.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editors&#8217; Note<\/strong>: As a commenter has pointed out, the snake in the above photograph is a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenighttour.com\/drake_bay_boa_constrictor_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">boa constrictor<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>and not the much more dangerous &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/00795\/burmese-python_795957c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">burmese python<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; as reported by the <strong><em>Union-Tribune<\/em><\/strong>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/30\/snakes-alive-python-found-in-local-lagoon\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hikers who were cruising the shores of Batiquitos Lagoon in the shadow of the Four Season&#8217;s Aviara spotted a five-foot long &#8220;Burmese python&#8221; today, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Troy Keenan (pictured right), a volunteer for the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation, was working in the foundation\u2019s nature center at the west [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}