Posted on 02/11/2010 7:44:46 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Vultures circled over Everglades National Park's Anhinga Trail, where thousands of dead non-native fish floated in the marshes.
About half the Burmese pythons found in the park in the past few weeks were dead.
Dead iguanas have dropped from trees onto patios across South Florida. And in western Miami-Dade County, three African rock pythons — powerful constrictors that can kill people — have turned up dead.
Although South Florida's warm, moist climate has nurtured a vast range of non-native plants and animals, a cold snap last month reminded these unwanted guests they're not in Burma or Ecuador anymore.
Temperatures that dropped into the 30s killed Burmese pythons, iguanas and other marquee names in the state's invasive species zoo.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Yeah for anti-global warming that is actually the result of global warming.
God trying to tell the environmentalists to “make boots and belts”...!!!!
This calls for a Federal stimulus program to buy new pythons and iguanas and transplant them back to the Everglades. This cannot stand. We must protect the ecosystem of the Everglades no matter what the cost.
But wouldn’t they capture them if they found them?
Gee, could we use this to prevent two-legged third world moochers from colonizing the United States as well?
I, for one welcome our new cold-weather-tolerant-python overlords.
Thank God for Global Warming, now they don’t have to go in there and kill them all.
They’ve taken over the airport in Minneapolis.
Good........I hate those things. Anything that kills family pets is not good in my book.
Some really good news. Hopefully this will make a big dent in the populations.
And so goes the great circle of life.
Or perhaps they planned ahead and bought winter clothes!
“It reinforces the idea that the pythons can’t exist more than a short period of time north of Lake Okeechobee.”
...I wouldn’t bet on that!...anybody here had any experiance with fire ants?...at first they said they couldn’t live north of South Carolina...well they made it thru North Carolina....then they made it into Virginia...then the scientists said they couldn’t make it to Maryland...well breeding colonies have been identified at the USDA research station in Greenbelt MD...lots of things are expanding their range these days...deer, turkey, feral hogs, mountain lions, alligators ect....why not snakes?
“Greg Graziani, a police officer who owns a reptile breeding facility, is one of several licensed python hunters who stalk the snakes in the Everglades. In four days of snake hunting, he found two dead snakes, two live ones, and one snake on the verge of death...”
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And why in the sam hill does anyone have to have a license to kill pythons? Just declare a bounty of $$ on turned-in python heads and stand back. I’m sure that in this economic climate there would be plenty of people who’d take that one up.
That approach worked all too well on the wolf in the early 1900’s.
Yes, we made the mistake of giving them coats.
“...I’m not dead yet; it’s merely a flesh wound...”
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Oh, I thought you said “Monty Python”; nevermind.
That’s one way to cull the herds.
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