People buy these as ‘pets’, they get too big to handle they turn them loose rather than disposing of them or giving them over to a wildlife park.
S. Fla has been inundated with foreign flora and fauna.
Back in the 80s my neighbor had a 4 ft. iguana in his yard. Drove his little dog crazy.
Fruit eating parrot flocks noisily flying around.
Melaluca trees taking over the Everglades.( They’ve pretty much eradicated at great expense and effort)
Now the scourge is pythons, eating everything in the ‘Glades and Lion Fish eating all the other fish in the ocean.
You do realize that it’s not irresponsible pet owners that caused the Burmese infestation in the Everglades right? Hurricane Andrew destroyed a very poorly built breeding and importation facility in that area years ago... that’s where the Burms, the cobras, the eyelash vipers, the mambas and other snakes came from. You never hear about the venomous ones there... only the big, really scary, wet your pants if you see one, Burmese pythons. Ever ask yourself why that is?
Adult Burmese pythons eat only a few times a year. In winter, they fast as the temperatures will fall low enough where they cannot digest food. Males will go off food in breeding season as well. When you look at how these snakes live and what their husbandry requirements are, all of a sudden, the claim that they’re eating everything in the Everglades is a bit unrealistic. Actually, it’s just flat out BS. To do the damage that is being claimed, you would need more than 50 adult Burmese pythons per acre. I can assure you, that is simply not the case.
Like I’ve said before... blame the snakes and kiss the Everglades good bye. Look at the real problem and fix it before it’s too late.