VIDEO: On Big Cypress bike ride, I watched a python wrestle an alligator

http://www.palmbeachpost.com ^ | 1/3/17 | Joe Capozzi

[Vendome]

Can’t be as slow as mine.

My Comcraptic Internet has been up and down all day.

Took me 5 hours to do some work that would normally only take 10 minutes.

They must use some old rusty copper wire or something....

[Polynikes]

Drain the swamp now.

[BBell]

I watched a show once where this crazy guy and his people had no trouble tracking them down. The trouble was is that they would put them in bags to be studied and then euthanized. That takes time. If they would have just blown them apart with shotguns they could have got a whole lot more.

You put a good bounty on their heads and someone will kill them. Works with nutria rats as their population has been dropping steadily for years. I can't remember the last time I saw one in my neighborhood.

But I will admit that huntin nutria rats is not that difficult as compared to hunting these snakes is.

[BBell]

[BBell]

Same here.

[BBell]

You have to wonder what geniuses allowed it in the first place.

[TexasGator]

Don’t believe everything you watch on TV

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet

Memory can be unreliable

[exPBRrat]

It’s alien vs predator.

[This I Wonder32460]

Diversity isn’t always pleasant. Diseases are diverse, cancer is diverse, wild life is diverse. Being killed and eaten by a native alligator or a illegally released foreign snake, neither has any appeal...

[This I Wonder32460]

Yeah, the alligator is the home team critter.

[BBell]

And don’t underestimate Rednecks!!

[usconservative]

Which begs the question: What's a Burmese Python doing in Florida since last I knew they were native to Southeast Asia?

It sure as hell didn't swim to Florida.....

[crz]

They got loose during Hurrican Andrew I guess.

I guess it blew down a place where they kept them. All it takes is a breeding pair.

[rhoda_penmark]

It was down at green river!

[rhoda_penmark]

Where have you been? They are now an invasive introduced species. Like nutria rats and kudzu.

[usconservative]

I don't live in Florida, I live in Illinois. How would I know?

I did end up googling Burmese Pythons in Florida and learned that Hurricane Andrew took down some building a few breeding pairs were housed in back in 1992 and it seems that's how this all started ......

[rhoda_penmark]

Nutria rats arrived much the same way, I believe they escaped from the McElhaney hot sauce family land in Louisiana, originally. I’ve seen one of those big ugly things swimming in a lake up here in North Carolina!