That was mostly a Jurassic Park jest.
It does not happen often enough to influence populations.
Years ago, in the first snake forum I ever joined. [pre-Facebook], someone came on the forum, freaking out, because their sole pet snake had just popped out a little of babies.
If memory serves, it was a Brazilian Rainbow Boa.
Disbelievers accused them of having it in with a male, in the distant past, blaming ‘retained sperm’, which, while possible, was impossible, given that they had the snake since it was a neonate and had no males, anyway.
Eventually, the mom and babies were hauled off to a university, where DNA testing was done, and lo and behold, the snake mom had replicated herself with half a dozen little cloned daughters.
But that it not terribly likely to happen, en masse.
A better method of saving the Everglades would be to crush “big sugar” and the obscene over-development going on.
Photos of the glades from 20 years ago, compared to now are shocking.
[those two things, alone, are actually responsible for “where all the native animals are going”]
Were the glades their original size, this would probably not be an issue, as all the wildlife would not be crammed into a space less than a fourth of its original acreage.
Plus, the unseasonable cold snaps that are now the norm [damn globull warming] is sickening them “naturally” and killing them off, anyway.
No one ever mentions that Florida is rife with a hundred other invasive species, such as Iguanas, various Monitors, parrots of every sort, Chameleons and too many others, to list.
Not to mention the wanton slaughter of native wildlife by non-native predators, such as cats.
It’s much easier to blame “scary, not-cute” things like snakes.
The mentality of this is *so* reminiscent of the classic liberal dog-whistles, it makes me sick to see it, here.
It’s so much easier to emotionally knee-jerk react than to bother with an independent search for the real facts.