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 ?
A lot of them also came from people getting them as pets and then abandoning them when they got inconvenient.
CC
Those were just random photos I found on the net.
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.