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It really is that simple. They have taken over as the apex predator and are consuming a huge percentage of the food base. Many other animals rely on that same food base, and the pythons are buzz-sawing their way through it.
Similar to hog hunting in Texas, I believe Florida has implemented targeted hunting programs for pythons. Will be tough to keep up....
That snake isn't relatively the same size as that beast, no where near the same weight.
Your McGregor fanboyism has skewed your perception of size.
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Pets that outgrew their tank and retarded owners who didn't want to kill them but also didn't want to care for them any more. We have a similar problem with green iguanas, except they're everywhere and not only in the Everglades. They don't wipe out mammal populations though, they just shit everywhere.
Hurricane Andrew in 1992 also destroyed a snake breeding facility in Miami that was close to the Everglades.
No one knows for sure but experts think that most of the snakes came from the destroyed breeding facility.
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Here's another chart showing the lengths of the pythons caught:
2 of the 3 of the 17+ footers were caught at the end of last year, so I misspoke slightly when I told N @Never_Rolled that the 3 biggest has been caught under the program in the last year.
The third one I was referencing was not caught by a licensed python hunter in the program but rather a team of scientists who had intentionally released a male python with a radio collar. They wanted him to bring them to a large female, and he did:
Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida
Title is sensationalized a little, as it is only the largest snake caught in one section of the Everglades. The largest was over 18 feet (one of the ones caught this past winter) and was caught in the python elimination program that the charts I've posted are from.
2 of the 3 of the 17+ footers were caught at the end of last year, so I misspoke slightly when I told N @Never_Rolled that the 3 biggest has been caught under the program in the last year.
The third one I was referencing was not caught by a licensed python hunter in the program but rather a team of scientists who had intentionally released a male python with a radio collar. They wanted him to bring them to a large female, and he did:
Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida
Title is sensationalized a little, as it is only the largest snake caught in one section of the Everglades. The largest was over 18 feet (one of the ones caught this past winter) and was caught in the python elimination program that the charts I've posted are from.
In Australia you can do your part by killing the invasive species pretty much on sight. Cane toad for example.Here's another chart showing the lengths of the pythons caught:
2 of the 3 of the 17+ footers were caught at the end of last year, so I misspoke slightly when I told N @Never_Rolled that the 3 biggest has been caught under the program in the last year.
The third one I was referencing was not caught by a licensed python hunter in the program but rather a team of scientists who had intentionally released a male python with a radio collar. They wanted him to bring them to a large female, and he did:
Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida
Title is sensationalized a little, as it is only the largest snake caught in one section of the Everglades. The largest was over 18 feet (one of the ones caught this past winter) and was caught in the python elimination program that the charts I've posted are from.
Can you do the same in Florida? Whack a snake anytime you see one?
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If it is on your property you are allowed to kill it. You are even allowed to shoot it with a pellet gun, provided there are no local ordinances that say you can't (I can't think of any in south Florida that would prohibit it).
You just have to kill it "humanely", which means you have to kill it in one blow to the head/brain so that it doesn't suffer. A shotgun or pellet gun would work, as would bashing their fookin head against a rock (100% serious).
Removing Pythons in Florida
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They must be really thriving in that environment.Here's another chart showing the lengths of the pythons caught:
2 of the 3 of the 17+ footers were caught at the end of last year, so I misspoke slightly when I told N @Never_Rolled that the 3 biggest has been caught under the program in the last year.
The third one I was referencing was not caught by a licensed python hunter in the program but rather a team of scientists who had intentionally released a male python with a radio collar. They wanted him to bring them to a large female, and he did:
Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida
Title is sensationalized a little, as it is only the largest snake caught in one section of the Everglades. The largest was over 18 feet (one of the ones caught this past winter) and was caught in the python elimination program that the charts I've posted are from.
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It's ideal for them in terms of heat, humidity, and access to water sources. Florida is #1 in the world for invasive species because anything that can survive in the humid jungle shitholes of central/South America or southeast Asia (like the Burmese python) can also survive here.
snakes be humping bro
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Local residents of a Palm Beach county community were warned last week about Nile Monitor lizards in their neighborhood.
There's a really annoying chick from PBC that posts on here. Hopefully one of the monitors ate her.
There's a really annoying chick from PBC that posts on here. Hopefully one of the monitors ate her.
Nutria took over the country because a fur farm in Louisiana got destroyed in a Hurricane...fuckers are everywhere and thriving
I heard about this the other day, apparently they caught it:
Five-foot lizard captured in Florida neighborhood after more than a year
Mayland was able to get rid of them. Just takes some political will.
Ironically hog hunting actually makes the invasion worse.
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I often keep up with stories of invasive species and when I saw "monitor" I made an assumption. My bad.
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Good for them, probably took a lot of work
That would be very difficult here I would think...they are all over city waterways and also remote areas.
Took like 15 years if memory serves (it probably doesn't).
Bay Journal - Article: Delmarva down to its last few nutria thanks to eradication project
oh shit, you just stirred my brain into remembering...I think I listened to a MeatEater Podcast with one of the guys running the program.