This is the Friends of History, Debating Society.

I'm John Matsu with Jeremy Zachis.

He is in New South Wales, where there are not as many pythons as there are in Queensland

to the north, a subtropical climate, or in Western Australia to the west, which I think

is a regular, a temperate climate, but it looks as if it gets the same pythons Queensland

does.

Jeremy, we have two examples of pythons crowding into settlements, one in Western Australia,

one in Queensland.

The puzzle here is, they seem friendly.

They're not venomous.

Lord knows you have plenty of venomous snakes.

They're gigantic, eight-foot, nine-foot, I think, is what I translate from my notes

here.

And they're not afraid of people.

In fact, they like people.

They like houses.

Is this normal behavior?

Are there any types of snakes in a house?

Just not answer, is John, not exactly.

Now, some areas do get pythons coming into the home, and I particularly mean northern

Queensland, and a lot of the residents there are used to seeing them around the homes,

and sometimes they do get in the homes when the back doors left open, for example, or

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