Talk:Brown tree snake
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[edit] Reproductive cycle?
A tourist guide to Hawaii that I'm reading makes the claim that a female, once fertilized can lay eggs for the rest of her life without needing to have sex with a male again. This is why it's so important to keep them out of ecosystems where they don't currently live: because even one snake can spawn hundreds or thousands of others. Anyway, this seems biologically fascinating to me, if a bit unlikely. Since I got this peice of info from a tourist book rather than a biology text, I didn't want to add it to the article, but I wondered if anyone else knew anything about this. --Jfruh 15:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Reproductive Cycle?
While this is not entirely true, most snake species CAN store sperm for several years after mating, and produce eggs over several years.
[edit] Plagiarism?
The second half of this article is identical to this one: [[1]]
Kyledr 06:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalization
Is there a reason that the word “brown” is capitalized throughout the article? I would expect each word of the name to begin with capitals (“Brown Tree Snake”) or to be entirely in lowercase (“brown tree snake”). —Patrick Garies 06:56, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What's this about APAP?
Could you please elaborate... How can acetaminophen(APAP/Paracetamol) be used to kill snakes? I know APAP is toxic to many animals but how are you supposed to get it into their system? Is it used like some kind of rat poison? Maybe its just me misunderstanding something LOL.. Please clear it up in the article. Thank you :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.92.26.104 (talk) 15:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I did a simple search and it seems to be correct. They give it to mice and hope the snake will eat it. There is already a reference in the section, but it needs to be formatted correctly. I added a reference too.--MartinezMD (talk) 19:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Killed almost the entire human population
Currently the article says:
The slightly venomous but generally harmless snake came north to Guam and killed almost the entire human population on the previously snake‐free island.
How did a harmless snake do this?
Ordinary Person (talk) 02:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
