Posted on 04/06/2019 6:04:47 PM PDT by Innovative
A 17-foot-long female python, the largest ever captured at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida's Everglades, took four people to hold it. A team of researchers posted a breathtaking photo of the snake on the Big Cypress Facebook page.
Big Cypress said the snake sent a new record for the area.
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Holy crap! How many babies has she dropped along her years of travel?
>> Somebody tell me what good they are?
For pissin’ off the ‘gators (-:
Y’know, if the Gummn’t was smart they’d put a bounty on the damn things e.g., longer = more $$s. Then all the Miami Cuban kids (ain’t many rednecks there no’ mo’) would arm up to the teeth, abandon the Trail Glades Range and take to shootin’ an’ killin’ ‘em 24/7/364.
(364? Can’t tick off Abuela when Noche Buena is comin’ up!) The Gummn’t Persons didn’t - they opted for paid hunters.
The Everglades is 2 to 3 feet above sea level. Just how do you propose to drain it?
Look, large swaths of America was swampland and land that would be considered protected areas today. Florida has over 21 million people in a state half the size of California, but proportionally the same population as CA. It is growing and those people need to be housed somewhere. That's prime real estate just sitting there. Develop the land, kill the gators and snakes, and turn it into something.
D.C. was drained and filled. BUT, its elevation is listed as 0-400 ft. so most of it has someplace to drain the water to. AND, D.C. is 68 square miles. The Everglades park is 2367 square miles and the Everglades swamp is about 6000 square miles.
Water flows downhill. At 2 to 3 feet of elevation there just isn't anyplace for the water to be drained into.
Unless you can figure out an economical way to lower the ocean, draining the Everglades is just not in the cards.
Of course you could always bring in fill dirt from somewhere. You write the environmental impact report on that one and I will organize a change in the law to put all of the illegals we catch at the border working to bring dirt from the desert to Florida in wheelbarrows.
For a solution to the problem: Have an OPEN SEASON on invasive snakes & encourage the Asian immigrants from countries that EAT snakes as a part of their normal/traditional diet to kill/eat them in any quantity that they choose.
IF that doesn’t end the problem, it’s BOUNTY time & (imo) PAST time to tell the “animal rights” morons to go pound sand.
Btw, would someone tell this TX hillbilly exactly WHAT rights that non-humans have. = My cats don’t talk so they don’t need “freedom of speech” NOR enjoy any of the other RIGHTS that persons do.
Yours, TMN78247
“...that would eat full-sized rabbits and baby goats.”
My first thought when looking at that photo?
“I bet that isn’t the woman’s lunch in that cooler.”
My Tony Lama Boas are the most comfortable foot wear I have ever owned.
Bought in the 80’s resoled 3 times and still look great.
Splurge
Read the article....
“The python weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs. Rita Garcia, a spokeswoman for Big Cypress Preserve, said the eggs were destroyed and the snake was euthanized.”
In case you hadn’t noticed:
And there are dozens more references for other South FL water systems.
Lake Okeechobee is only a link in the system: Mostly water from it filters through the Everglades and other swampy areas (or at least it used to) into the aquifers, where it is then picked up by the wells. Essentially, the Everglades is part of a huge natural treatment system, the treatment supplemented a little by humans at the water districts’ treatment facilities. Diversion of water from Lake Okeechobee to the ocean, primarily in wet periods, results in (among other things) long term shortages of fresh water to the aquifers, with the sea only too glad to make up the difference. In dry periods, sometimes the lake nearly dries up — it is exceptionally shallow for a lake its size. Also note that at times, Lake Okeechobee’s water is not just unsafe to drink, it is seriously toxic.
I suppose you will volunteer to drink the seawater? Or pay for massive desalinization projects? Or pay for an even more massive project to seriously increase Lake O’s capacity, treat its water directly (including in toxic periods), and then pipe it to the water districts. Righto....
Dinner!!!
(That’s not meant as an insult — properly prepared, it’s likely quite good!)
There’s a bigger problem, already ongoing because of what HAS been drained. See my post 51, and about a zillion online articles and references, if you wish to research further.
Not gonna ask how they knew it’s a female.
Apparently they killed and they said they found a lot of eggs or embryos.
Hey! I saw that Raiders Of The Lost Ark movie!
I believe monkey brains were on the menu too!
These female Burmese pythons can lay fertile eggs for 10 years. They can carry the male python sperm and fertilize the eggs as they go.
I do believe they are kind of an Open Season nowadays. The prediction that I heard last and this was a few years ago, was that in 50 to 75 years Burmese pythons will be in Georgia Alabama Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana in what used to be referred to as GAMEL.
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