New And Improved Model

And by improved I mean incredibly more aggressive and dangerous.

And this constrictor makes the Burmese python that has already pushed deep into the Everglades seem almost cuddly. The snake is the African rock python, a relative similar in size, appearance and appetite but considered much more aggressive.

``They are just mean, vicious snakes,'' said Kenneth Krysko, senior herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. ``You couldn't get a worse python to become established. A Burmese python is just a docile snake. These things will lunge at you.''

Some people have been working on a plan.