Posted on 01/25/2017 7:49:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
The tribesmen have removed 13 pythons in just over a week, including a 16-foot-long female
Florida wildlife officials have recruited tribesmen from India in the state's ongoing hunt for Burmese pythons.
Irula tribesmen are well-known in southern India for their snake-catching. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission hopes they'll reveal something that has long eluded researchers: a reliable way to track and spot the tan, splotchy snakes that all but disappear in the Everglades.
One of the commission's exotic species experts, Kristen Sommers, said in a statement Monday that the state hopes the tribesmen can teach people in Florida some of their skills.
The tribesmen have removed 13 pythons in just over a week, including four from the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Key Largo. One of the snakes was a female measuring 16 feet long.
Last year, a state-sanctioned hunt netted 106 pythons in one month.
Breed millions of pythons in captivity. Sterilize the males - chemically or via radiation - and then release the sterile males into the wild. Bye-bye baby pythons. After reading about this technique being used to control mosquito populations if I remember correctly the number of sterile males doesn’t even have to be that large (compared to the overall population) to push the birthrate way down.
Is that what they did to the United States?
Let me guess....H1B visas?
Our birth rate does seem to have taken a dive...
Good. The LESS snakes in this world, the better!
Kill them all and let G-d sort them out! ;)
I don’t think they sterilized the males. I think they turned them gay.
this one’s for you...
How do you sterilize mosquitoes?
"The tribesmen have removed 13 pythons in just over a week."
"A state-sanctioned hunt netted 106 pythons in one month."
By my math, the "Murica" way is greater than 50% more effective than the Indians To solve the problem, the state needs to get out of the way and sanction the hunting indefinitely until they are all gone. And send the Indians packing.
I can't be the only one that sees this.
Only a couple months away.
My various responses to each photo:
Naw.
No way,
Nuts.
Eww.
Forget that.
Yuck.
And the last one: Oh S***!!! (Pardon my French)
screw worms?
Hell yes. Unemployed males (and females) are too afraid to start a family.
Was this influx of exotic species from the Hurricane Andrew hit on the lab where these critters were studied, milked of their venom etc and the pythons were also there ?
Nature will find a way.
http://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/2014/02/snakes-that-give-virgin-birth.html
A lot of them also came from people getting them as pets and then abandoning them when they got inconvenient.
CC
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