There are over 100,000 Burmase PYTHONS in the Florida Everglades. Small mammal production has dropped by 90%

I live in The Villages, Fla., And my beloved cat Fluffy has gone missing.

Please remember her in your prayers tonight.

CousinPookie wrote:

They should send some over to Louisiana to feast on them there nutria swamp rats.

Since they're in Florida, they're very likely in Louisiana too.

Why are giant snakes eating small mammals when they can eat big mammals?

Why can't Florida just build more small mammal factories to get production up to normal levels? A lot of Floridians are originally from New York, experienced rat breeders.

I'm always hearing about alligators killing people down there, but I've never heard of one of these pythons killing anyone. You folks just need to relax and not be so uptight.

Lesser of two evils wrote:

I've never heard of one of these pythons killing anyone.

That's because you don't hear about them.

Flagpole wrote:

BotanyMan wrote:

Yes, some of the Burmese Pythons are/descendants of released pets. However, the main cause of the population explosion is Hurricane Andrew. A large facility containing many pythons was destroyed in the storm, and the snakes escaped into the Everglades.

Yep. Destructive hurricanes have released a lot of invasive species into the wild.

Wow! That was racist.

dunes runner wrote:

Lesser of two evils wrote:

I've never heard of one of these pythons killing anyone.

That's because you don't hear about them.

Which is because they never happened.

Exactly. Best story was the dude who worked with snakes, and didn't come in for a week because his allegedly benevolent 17 foot long python ended up eating him in Australia or South Africa.

But, my former state of residence has something of interest happen recently:

https://whnt.com/2019/06/20/tuscaloosa-authorities-search-for-15-foot-python-on-the-loose/

That would be actually pretty scary if you had small children that had a tendency to hang out in the backyard near this residence.

*had

Lesser of two evils wrote:

dunes runner wrote:

That's because you don't hear about them.

Which is because they never happened.

Exactly, because you don't hear about them.

Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnston should bring them to Chicago and let them loose in the streets every weekend. Result: no shootings, no murders.

taste like chicken wrote:

joedirt wrote:

get some chef on the food network to popularize python stew.

It taste like chicken!

I'm pretty sure in Burma they refer to them as chicken of the swamp.

Second this... wrote:

Exactly. Best story was the dude who worked with snakes, and didn't come in for a week because his allegedly benevolent 17 foot long python ended up eating him in Australia or South Africa.

But, my former state of residence has something of interest happen recently:

https://whnt.com/2019/06/20/tuscaloosa-authorities-search-for-15-foot-python-on-the-loose/

That would be actually pretty scary if you had small children that had a tendency to hang out in the backyard near this residence.

From pictures I've seen of Tuscaloosa residents, there is no way a python could get it's mouth wide enough for their portly bodies. They should be safe.

pythoncullingv3 wrote:

Let the gun nuts go out there and kill them. No limit.

Don't waste bullets when a machete will do.

145 lbs of "Tastes like chicken" is a helluva backyard BBQ

Lesser of two evils wrote:

I've never heard of one of these pythons killing anyone.

"They are causing serious harm to the fragile Everglades ecosystem by eating native wildlife such as possum, rabbits, deer, bobcats, alligators, and other indigenous wildlife."

I'm pretty sure they've killed some of their "owners" before too.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

. . .

Snakes can lay up to 70 eggs in a labor session, with the majority of the offsprings (sic) surviving.

INCORRECT!

Scorpion_runner wrote:

The ignorance . . . of man continues.

CORRECT! (as you've just demonstrated)

Well in the near future when most of the state of Florida is below sea level that should take care of the problem . Unless they move to Georgia. Then it's someone else's problem.

Why Burmase? Ball pythons make much better pets.

22 inch pythons, brother wrote:

The only python that concerns me is the one resting in my ASICS 6 inch running shorts, brother.

Is that why Hannah Cunliffe moved to Florida? Too soon?