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Over 1,500 hunters help capture 50 pythons in FL
Associated Press via Miami Herald ^
| February 5, 2013
Posted on 02/10/2013 1:50:26 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: allendale
You're kidding, these snakes would eat cats like M&Ms. You do know they get to be 30 feet long right?
To: PJ-Comix
The trick here will be to find something the snakes eat that alligators do not. As has been done on Guam against brown snakes, acetaminophen (generic Tylenol), is deadly to reptiles (and many other animals), so they stuff dead mice with them and it kills the snakes.
However, lots of animals will eat dead mice.
To: hinckley buzzard
I take it back, they don't get to be 30 feet at least not here. The Florida record is 17 feet plus. It had 80+ eggs in it, about the size of duck eggs. Delightful creature.
To: Drew68
Wow.
I’ve always wondered how thugs and scumbags wound up with killer dogs and snakes.
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:14:54 PM PST
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:15:55 PM PST
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: hinckley buzzard
A 5 foot juvenile could eat a cat with no problems.
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:17:42 PM PST
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: PJ-Comix
The competition began Jan. 12 and ends Feb. 10.
So why the early end to the competition? One would think they would extend it to at least May and maybe even declare an open season on the damn things and offer a bounty on them..........
But then again I don't work for the government...........
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:18:03 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
To: hinckley buzzard
You need a canoe, a bill cap, sun screen, a .22 rifle and a couple of pet crows. Oh, and a catch stick like animal control guys use. The crows are to spot the snakes.
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:22:43 PM PST
by
Rifleman
To: PJ-Comix
What they need is a severe freeze.
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:26:05 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Salamander
i see what you did there...
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:35:26 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:37:36 PM PST
by
Salamander
(We're all kinds of animals comin' round here...occasional demons, too.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Wildlife officials say eradicating pythons from the Everglades was never the goal of the challenge. Instead, they hoped to raise awareness about the snake's threat to native wildlife and the fragile Everglades ecosystem.
The govt goal is never solving the problem but raising awareness of the problem........................
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posted on
02/10/2013 3:42:02 PM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
( Lord save me from some conservatives, they don't understand human nature any better than liberals.)
To: AnAmericanMother
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posted on
02/10/2013 4:01:45 PM PST
by
onona
(KCCO, and mind the gap)
To: PJ-Comix
where the snakes live, people can’t penetrate. the vegetationis just too thick
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posted on
02/10/2013 4:10:22 PM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: PJ-Comix
I have a genuine python wallet and purse. On our Alaskan cruise last summer we dined one evening with a husband and wife and seventeen year old son from Florida. When the young man spotted my wallet he thanked me for helping to save the wildlife of the Everglades from non-native pythons. The subject of his high school term paper was how non-native species endangered the eco-systems of Florida. Snake skin is very durable. After almost a year of use neither the purse or wallet show any wear.
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posted on
02/10/2013 4:20:08 PM PST
by
Irish Queen
("Don't fence me in")
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
02/10/2013 4:44:17 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name! See new paintings!)
To: hinckley buzzard
The cats would of course probably lose one on one with a mature python, but they would play havoc with the python’s nests, eggs and very young. Just a thought.
To: VeniVidiVici
“Though you have to wonder how they come up with that number.”
I imagine that they use some of the same capture-recapture statistical methods fisheries biologists use to estimate the number of fish in a body of water. Tagging a sample is probably a first step. (My guess would be “tagging” with an RFID insert.)
To: PeterPrinciple
"Wildlife officials say eradicating pythons from the Everglades was never the goal of the challenge. Instead, they hoped to raise awareness about the snake's threat to native wildlife and the fragile Everglades ecosystem. The govt goal is never solving the problem but raising awareness of the problem........................ "
What color ribbon does Everglades Ecosystem Awareness get?
Camo?
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posted on
02/10/2013 5:10:43 PM PST
by
knife6375
(US Navy Veteran)
To: PJ-Comix
So...did they have a Cook - Off afterwords?
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posted on
02/10/2013 6:39:20 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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