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Examples
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To nudge their "retic" count back into normal range after a transfusion, Landis recently told
SI.com 2010
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(News source.) (I'm thinking retic morph, as it's oddly patterned, but it looks like it is badly decomposed, so can't be certain from the poor images shown ... doesn't appear to be a boa or Burmese.)
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Isemonger (1962) reported cases where African pythons killed and swallowed antelopes that must have weighed around 20 kg, a 32-yr-old man was allegedly eaten by a 7-m retic in 1998 (Auliya unpublished, cited in Fredriksson 2005), and Shine et al. (1998) reported a case of a retic swallowing a pig (of unstated species) that weighed 60 kg.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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And we extracted almost a 20-foot retic python out of a chicken coop in Borneo.
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Its also been a busy period with retic work as summer approaches and I have had a lot of jobs on the go concurrently.
Backyard Missionary 2008
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He had not perhaps the difpofitions of an he - retic.
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