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‘Robo-Bunnies’ Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | 21 July 2025 | Sarah Kuta

Posted on 07/26/2025 12:05:05 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: nevadapatriot

introduce robo pythons then


61 posted on 07/26/2025 4:23:51 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: dljordan

[[ I don’t want to be in a boat with a bunch of dead pythons crawling all over the place]]

You bag em up so they can’t-


62 posted on 07/26/2025 4:24:56 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: NautiNurse

Jimmy Carters’ worst nightmare.


63 posted on 07/26/2025 4:30:30 PM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Bob434

“You bag em up so they can’t-”

Oh great, a BAG of squirming pythons.


64 posted on 07/26/2025 6:02:01 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

65 posted on 07/26/2025 8:31:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: NautiNurse; silent majority rising

From what I can tell they are Leftist as can be. Much like National Geographic and Scientific American became. Once great magazines that became worthless due to Leftist tilts.


66 posted on 07/27/2025 2:30:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: fso301

“Place a bounty high enough”

If they’re too high someone will start a python ranch and raise them. Need a way to thwart that.


67 posted on 07/27/2025 2:54:37 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1; larrytown
If they’re too high someone will start a python ranch and raise them. Need a way to thwart that.

True. Might be able to employ some sort of wireless geolocating technology. Something like an cellphone app the hunter has to download as part of signing up.

When a hunter makes a kill, they must geolocate it via the cellphone app. A timestamp is included with the geolocation.

If deep in the swamps without cell service, the phones will still receive GPS permitting kills to still be geolocated. When the phone eventually gets service, it will upload the kill data.

To receive the bounty, the number of kills must be less than, or equal to geolocated data for the hunter.

Anyone trying to get into python ranching and sell them for bounties will have their geolocated data stand out like a sore thumb versus that of real hunters.

This geolocating system will enable wildlife managers to "see" what areas are being cleared and which aren't.

To clear some of the least accessible areas, geolocated bounties may need to be increased.

68 posted on 07/27/2025 4:15:37 AM PDT by fso301
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To: silent majority rising

Why not outfit the bloody bunnies with a grenade and a pressure switch? Python meets bunny, python bites bunny, python squeezes bunny....bunny go boom.


69 posted on 07/27/2025 5:26:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: fso301
To clear some of the least accessible areas, geolocated bounties may need to be increased.

SFWMD hourly wages for Python Elimination Agents are already scaled to compensate for location accessibility.

70 posted on 07/27/2025 6:47:23 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

As previously explained, grenades and bombs are not python-specific. Remember, this is the Everglades, with a substantial array of wildlife.


71 posted on 07/27/2025 6:50:37 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: silent majority rising

LOL, that how my Aunt Mary dealt with ANY snake that dared to slither onto her property.


72 posted on 07/27/2025 6:55:27 AM PDT by mware
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To: Carry_Okie

Speaking of eradication, did you see this one?


73 posted on 07/27/2025 9:20:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Speaking of eradication, did you see this one?

Yes, I did, but the presumptions under which the program is run don't give me much hope. Said bunnies are operated by bureaucrats dependent upon the continuing existence of the problem.

Without people on those landscapes, there will be no improvement for wildlife. The journal of Cabeza de Vaca's journey from Florida to the Pacific Coast does not describe a single alligator.

74 posted on 07/27/2025 9:27:08 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: NautiNurse
SFWMD hourly wages for Python Elimination Agents are already scaled to compensate for location accessibility.

But my understanding it that only includes state land. Federal land such as the everglades big cypress etc., are still essentially python sanctuaries.

Is my understanding incorrect?

75 posted on 07/27/2025 9:41:07 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301
The U.S. Department of the Interior granted Florida’s request to increase
access to federal lands for python removal, particularly within the Big
Cypress National Preserve.
Source: SFWMD

76 posted on 07/27/2025 10:05:59 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse

True. A non-selective weapon. But a 2 ounce charge would be sufficient to render a python inert. Not talking Claymore here.


77 posted on 07/27/2025 3:34:02 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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