Deer-eating python captured, killed in Florida Everglades

[Gerry]

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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...huge-python-found-in-florida-had-eaten-a-deer

 

[south]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151...guzzling-python-comes-messy-end/#.Tqt2M5Qy6RM

 

[Poker]

God forbid an animal should kill another animal for food or in defense. Humans are the only animals that kill for other reasons.

 

[draggar]

The issue with boas is that they are NOT native to the Florida Everglades. 100% of them are from people realizing how big they get and then releasing them into the wild.

They're f-ing up the ecosystem here. There are only two things that are fighting back from them - alligators (which they've seen at least one where the boa would have won - if the gator's claw didn't rip a hole in the boa) and the occasional cold night. Pray for another cold winter in south Florida to cut their numbers even further back.

 

[Gerry]

God forbid an animal should kill another animal for food or in defense. Humans are the only animals that kill for other reasons.

re-emphasis what draggar has mentioned.

These animals are not native to Florida. The are a breed of 'pets' that were let go over decades and now are out of control in the everglades and other parts of Florida.

I recall several years ago a neighborhood was missing many of its pets. A couple of young children were telling their mommy that a snake was under the house. By the time they got the snake out from under the house, it was a ball python that measured 21 feet long.

Non-native species of plants and animals are very destructive to the ecosystems and checks and balances. Kudzu is another great example here in the Carolinas of a non-native species gone rampant.

 

[Poker]

Then release it back into it's natural habitat.

 

[Gerry]

Well, the pet shops that feel they must sell every thing to every little snot-nosed whiney kid that comes into the shop imports all these non-native species from south america and southeast asia. Even the aquariums.

Then when that cute little snake or alligator get five feet long, we can't take care of them anymore so release them into the wild.

Someone just caught another Piranha here in a North Carolina river. Yup, another non-native species prohibited from owning and releasing into the wild.