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Python temperature gradient

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yojoe05

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I'm getting ready to go on a rogue snake call and I've been given the description of a fairly large sized python. My boss told me that it's been outside for at least two to three months now and surviving yet we've had temperatures drop well into the 50's at night. What kind of temperatures can a python or boa survive in? No native snakes in the area get as large as the description I've received on this snake and so I'm wondering what I'm getting myself into. Its 6 feet long apparently and what he described is that in its widest part it was about as big around as a softball. I can't see a python or boa surviving in cooler spring temperatures in Illinois for two to three months so I'm just needing some insight here as I'm not wanting to go into this pick up blind. Apparently no officials in town will come pick it up because they don't have any training in how to handle such an animal so people have just left to to its own means to survive since it was discovered.
 
How much would you want to bet that it's an adult rat snake? Lol.

I doubt that a boa or python would survive those temps for very long. If it has, it is probably very sick by now.
 
Non herpers tend to REALLY over estimate sizes, especially when seen for just a minute in the wild. Some pythons could survive low, but above freezing, temps. But I expect you will find a big bull snake, or maybe a rat snake.
 
Yeah I don't expect it to be a python or boa either and I found it highly unlikely that it would survive for three months at temperatures under its normal temperature range. I'm expecting a large black rat snake or bull snake, probably the second more likely being the markings would make people think python or boa more than a black rat.
 
There's no telling, if people there are like the ones here every large snake is a python and every small snake is a copperhead. Sad.
 
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