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missingthebigdog

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4. I am similarly skeptical

Reply to Demeter (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:50 AM

Feb 2013

All of the press I have seen on this puts forth the notion that there are all of these huge snakes in the everglades, and that they have no natural predators. But if the snakes abandoned by irresponsible owners are reproducing, their offspring ARE NOT huge. It takes a long time for snakes to get that big. Little snakes have all kinds of predators- birds, rodents, possums, other snakes, etc.

I am not arguing that the snakes aren't a problem, only that they are not the catastrophe of epic proportions that some would have you believe.

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Everglades Python Hunt A Bust - Maybe 50 Snakes Killed Out Of Estimated 150,000 [View all] hatrack Feb 2013 OP

Hunting them.... dumb.... letting them hunt and find themselves in a trap they can't escape... 2on2u Feb 2013 #1

As a reptile owner this irks me rightsideout Feb 2013 #2

How so? dbackjon Feb 2013 #6

150,000 seems awfully high Demeter Feb 2013 #3

I am similarly skeptical missingthebigdog Feb 2013 #4

Sightings of large ones are increasingly common Yo_Mama Feb 2013 #5

You are sadly mistaken dbackjon Feb 2013 #8

They have done surveys. Samples then estimated from there. dbackjon Feb 2013 #7