Record Python Caught in Everglades
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1245648.ece
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SigEp77 said
These suckers are destroying the environment and are a major threat. If you own a burmese python, please do not release them into the wild when you no longer want it.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1245648.ece
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SigEp77 said
If you own a burmese python, please do not release them into the wild when you no longer want it.
Alternatively, you could…what, if you didn't want to keep it? Humane society? Do they take snakes? Zoos?
I don't have one, I'm just curious.
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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/aug/02/could-lionfish-florida-waters-end-seafood-restaura/
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Owl2Doc said
SigEp77 said
If you own a burmese python, please do not release them into the wild when you no longer want it.
Alternatively, you could…what, if you didn't want to keep it? Humane society? Do they take snakes? Zoos?
I don't have one, I'm just curious.
I imagine the zoo would take it. Unfortunately they need to be destroyed.
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Like SigEp said, they need to be killed. They don't belong down here and they're eating all of the wildlife in the everglades.
I'm sure they'll eventually find another python that's even bigger than this one.
Even he agrees, they shouldn't be in Florida! lol
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I think the only effective strategy that may have worked early on would have been to have an open season for licensed hunters to reduce the population. But even that probably never would have put a dent in the population. They have the perfect storm of environmental factors that will allow them to colonize the area quickly, high reproductive rate, no predators, and amazing camoflauge. In the field you could be standing 3 feet from a 15' python and never know it. Unfotunately like the lionfish I think the pythons are here to stay.
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