A burgeoning population of huge pythons—many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big—appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats, and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.
The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that sightings of medium-size mammals are down dramatically—as much as 99 percent, in some cases—in areas where pythons and other large, nonnative constrictor snakes are known to be lurking.
Scientists fear the pythons could disrupt the food chain and upset the Everglades’ environmental balance in ways difficult to predict.
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With science and tactical abatement I beleave we can control this threat!
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Why do this in January, when the snakes are holed up ? If the FWW rlaely wanted to do something productive, instead of this little dog and pony show for the TV cameras, wouldn’t they have done this in the Spring when the temps are more conducive to snake activity? Am I right, or am I missing something here?