Posted on 03/04/2018 3:24:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sorry, you are very wrong. Cats would hold their own against adult pythons and would destroy nests.
Cats don’t like being in water. Most don’t. The Everglades is water.
Take Broward County high-school students python hunting. I bet most would love it.
I know I would.
Think your child or pet or you being killed by these snakes.
Time to eradicate them, and it won’t be easy.
Kinda like the old cartoon where you have mice, so you send in cats, then you have to send in the dogs to get rid of the cats, then you have to send in the lions to get the dogs,then you have to send in the elephants to get rid of the lions, then you have to send in the mice to get rid of the elephants.
The snakes have about a 2 to 4 year growth to breeding age, once hatched. That would mean the snakes put in the Everglades in 1988 would be thirty years old but could have mated before 1990. That would make a possible 8 generations of around 35 to 100 eggs per snake per season, possibly more. And if they didn’t have a fairly high hatchling mortality rate, they would already by in charge at Disney World. Easier to just burn the state of Florida to be sure. The whole state.
rwood
That’s a pretty small deer. A juvenile, I presume?
I grew up camping and tromping through the swamps, prairies and hammocks of the Big Cypress and Everglades.
You could not pay me to go back and do it today.
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