Posted on 01/30/2012 6:07:54 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Burmese pythons have virtually wiped out raccoons, marsh rabbits, opossums and other once-common mammals in the southern region of Everglades National Park, according to a nine-year study that shows the snakes' devastating impact on the park's wildlife.
The loss of so many significant species from part of the park is certain to have significant repercussions throughout the food web, said Michael Dorcas, lead author of the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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And another study shows that snakes will vote for Mitt Romney.
The area must be swarming with them. They eat a lot at one time but don’t eat often. A person I’m acquainted with once had an 18 footer that was only fed once per year, I think around 18 chickens
Snakes !! why is it always snakes !!
Open a chain of Pythonburger restaurants in Florida...buy ‘em and deep fry ‘em...fries and cole slaw dem snakes good eatins ;^)
Tastes like chicken!
Third,get a bunch of snooty chefs to develop tasty and exotic menu items from Burmese python meat, to be sold at high prices in exclusive restaurants.
Fourth, give exclusive python-hunting rights to Cajuns. When the meat and skin prices go high enough the pythons will probably try to swim their way back to Burma to escape .
I mean us with internal temperature control and opposable thumbs.
This has to stop.
Can't we just poison the whole glades area and wait for the mammals to return?
/johnny
We already have those. I'm looking in Escoffier now for the appropriate sauces.
/johnny
There’s an illegal immigration analogy here folks ...
You got it! Put a generous bounty on them and they will eventually disappear.
Invite a bunch of yankees into the everglades? Be prepared to rescue the yankees.
I don't have recipes for illegal immigrants.
Besides the old standards from Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'. And I'm not sure he was serious.
/johnny
I scrolled to the end of the article without reading the rest of it and sure enough, I found the line I was looking for.
They are very elusive critters, I don’t think inexperienced hunters would have much luck.
Why not train them to eat liberals.
I'm not certain you realize how inaccessible most of the Everglades is. Cajuns would give up . . . quickly.
We took a group of Scouts there recently and we went on *noncommercial* airboat rides (enough of us to fill four boats, and each pair of two went in a different direction) several miles back into some narrows. Iguanas (not native) were pretty common if a spot was open to the sun. We saw two large pythons.
Exotic pet owners who tire of their pets when they get too large don't appear to care or understand that simply letting "Otto" or "Killer" loose in the Everglades is a bad idea.
It’s not that hard to catch them. Just dangle a cat from the end of a pole and hold it out over the water - kinda like fly fishing.
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