Posted on 04/13/2006 1:58:40 PM PDT by Grendel9
Edited on 04/13/2006 2:09:29 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's newest problem is roughly the circumference of a telephone pole. It has no toes. It snacks on rabbits. It's the Burmese python. And in South Florida, the problem is growing in number and in feet.
"Last year, we caught 95 pythons," said Skip Snow, a biologist with Florida Everglades National Park. That's not counting the 13-footer that exploded after trying to eat an alligator, or two others that got loose and ate a Siamese cat and a turkey.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/26/State/Florida_s_iguana_infe.shtml
Global warming. Reptiles are taking over because the world is too warm. It's all Bush's fault. </sarc>
Oh, you sooo owe me a new screen, hahahahahaha! Now, how do we get them to prefer RATS?
Open a hunting season. All caibers. They'll be gone inside a year.
No they are just illegal immigrants......oh wait wrong thread.... ;) LOL
They're just eating the rabbits that American Pythons won't eat.....
Works for my cats. :-)
I'd rather have snakes slithering around than the cats they'll eat.
The only python around my neck of the woods is a Monty.
When I briefly removed my tinfoil hat, it occured to me that the Chinese have been covertly introducing hostile animal species to the US.
Yeah, I was out jogging at my in-laws place in Ft. Lauderdale about a year ago and I saw something huge run past me and up a tree. I went in for a closer look and it was an iguana about 5 feet long and very big around.
I didn't realize they had them there or that they could get so big.
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