Posted on 08/05/2021 2:54:57 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Burmese pythons are not native to Florida and have bad effects on native species. They are found primarily in and around the Everglades, where they prey on birds, mammals and other reptiles.
They can grow to be 26 feet long and over 200 pounds when fully grown.
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Rounding out the top of the leaderboard was Brandon Call, also a novice, who nabbed a 15-foot, 9-inch long critter.
More than 600 people participated in the risky competition
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Here in DuPage County very few of my fellow citizens would be so inclined.
Fortunately our winters would be too much for most pythons.
I’ve watched Swamp People every year since it’s started, and then I watch those same Swamp People head to Florida, to catch pythons, etc.
India tried incenting people to capture Cobras. And people started farming them.
The state should offer a free hunting fishing license for a year for every python head you bring in.
Five words inspired by a movie….
Snakes in the Capitol Building
I’m pretty sure snake-hunting was in an early Simpsons episode.
Every May 10th is Whacking Day in Springfield.
I believe that episode was 3rd season.
Haha !!! You beat me to it - great historical story !!!
Sixty years ago NYC tried to offer money for dead rat tails. the more you killed the more you got.
They could not even get people off their lazy butts to try and catch a rat.
The program failed with no rats turned in.
I still remember farm and ranch magazines had adds in the back offering money for rat tails.
There are already too many two-legged snakes there already. 🙂
In Louisiana it’s $6 per nutria tail.
Hmmm.., how do you catch or hunt a nutria? How do you collect the bounty? What is done with the tails?
Also, were any war brides brought home?
Snake whacking, after Irish whacking was discontinued.
They used Barry White vocals to lure them in.
The snakes, not the Irish.
You need whiskey for them!
Boss: "Our goal is to write bug-free software. I'll pay a ten-dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix."
Dilbert : "Yahoo!"
Alice: "We're rich!"
Wally: "Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!"
Boss: "I hope this drives the right behavior."
Wally: "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!"
What do they do with the snakes? The skins are surely useful, but is the meat eaten?
Are the pythons moving northward? How far north have they been found?
Some of the meat is eaten. Apparently mercury is a real problem in apex predators of the Everglades.
Think Popeye's chicken sandwich.
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