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Yorktown Missing Python has Neighbors Worried

Yorktown Missing Python has Neighbors Worried

A ten foot python is still missing in Yorktown and a tall brush filled field has the neighbors worried.

The Neighbors in the surrounding area have told channel 3 that they are taking the necessary precautions.  Kayla Wallace, a neighbor whose yard touches the tall brush says “I have a 15th month old that loves to be outside but I have to keep her inside because we don’t know where the snake is”. 

Behind the trailer park of where the snake could have escaped from is a tall field that extends into many of the backyards of neighboring houses.  The field is filled with very thick brush that the snake could be living in and the community would never know it. 

Pythons feed on small animals like squirrels and rabbits, which is the type of animals Kayla says, she sees all the time in her backyard.

If you have seen the snake or have any information on where the snake is please call Animal Control at 757-890-3621.

Duck penis length depends on other males

Scientists reported last week in Williamsburg that the maximum length of a duck's penis depends not on genetics but rather the males he keeps company with.

According to an article on wired.com, the penis of a drake, or male duck, shrinks at the end of one breeding season and regrows the next. Scientists looked at two types of duck - lesser scaup and ruddy - and found the regrowth depends on whether the ducks have competition from other males.

The findings are noteworthy, according to Patricia Brennan of Yale University, because they offer rare evidence that social circumstances influence penis growth. Ducks “are essentially engineering their own phallus in response to social challenges," evolutionary ecologist Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto Scarborough told Wired.

The findings were presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at the College of William and Mary.