I find it utterly amusing how people that have zero experience with these animals have all the answers.
You are correct that it’s the sugar plantations that are killing off the Everglades, it’s not a snake of any kind. People are so worried about the Burmese pythons and yet, not one single peep about the plethora of venomous species that were released in Hurricane Andrew.
Now, back to the know it all couch commandos. I’m going to be blunt. The Burms are not going away in the Everglades by the hand of man. It is simply not going to happen. Burms are not going to migrate out of Florida. They cannot handle the cooler temperatures. Again... it’s not going to happen.
For the kill them all crowd. You owe your cushy existence to the presence of snakes. Without them, we would not have a society that is this advanced. Most of you would be dead before you’re 30. Give the slithers the respect they deserve. They’re not monsters, they’re beneficial more than you know.
I work with some of the largest species of snakes in the world every single day. All the fear mongering that I see in this thread is pure bunk. Like most of the threads on snakes on FR, I laugh at the bravado of many of you that thump your chest and want to kill these animals. Nature will take care of the Burmese in the Everglades. It’s slowly been happening for years. Humans aren’t going to eliminate the Burms no matter what you might think. But mother nature will.
Stop the hate on these animals. They are being blamed for something that they are not doing. Salamander is correct in that it’s the sugar plantations that are killing the Everglades. Focus on that and address it if you want to save the wildlife there. Or... blame the snake and watch the Everglades die as the sugar growers laugh at how gullible people are.
I wonder how many people are unwittingly taking some life-saving medicine, right now, wholly unaware that without snakes, that medicine would be impossible, rendering them *dead*, for the lack of it?
Yeah.
“Kill ‘em all.”
Disease will sort them out.