Posted on 02/10/2013 1:50:26 PM PST by PJ-Comix
MIAMI -- More than 1,500 participants of a monthlong python challenge have helped to capture 50 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission updated the counts Tuesday for the "Python Challenge." The competition began Jan. 12 and ends Feb. 10.
The invasive snakes killed in the Everglades are processed and logged by University of Florida researchers who examine each one hoping to learn more about the elusive species.
No one knows for sure how many pythons live in South Florida. 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 snake faces both state and federal bans.
Actually, I could easily lay out a plan to get ‘em all; but as specified, eradication is not the gov’t answer.
Open license to hunt ‘em, and put a bounty of $2/ft on each carcass.
‘Problem’....solved.
It doesn’t count unless they eat ‘em.
Me thinks those boyz kept 5 for the skins for every 1 they turned in. $$$
Until the ebola-like virus mutates. No thanks.
pathetic!!!
Maybe it kills them because it lowers their body temp a little. Are alligators quite as fussy concerning cooling as these snakes are, I wonder, as alligators have survived many a colder snap in Florida throughout the ages? Other reptiles live in colder places and survive. I am not at all sure that Tylenol kills them because it lowers their temp, just a thought.
Acetaminophen is actually a very dangerous drug and kills lots of people every year. It readily destroys the liver, so much so that its antidote needs to be given within 8 hours of an overdose, and the victim might still need a liver transplant.
Oddly enough, humans are one of the few animals that can take *some* Acetaminophen without being harmed by it.
For cats, however, it is pure poison:
https://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/1998/spring/acet.shtml
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