How long do you believe it will take before pythons eradicate alligators in the US?
My friend showed me an article he found online where these people found a 15ft Burmese python who ate an alligator. With hurricanes causing flood, releases, and escapes, the everglades are now overrun with big snakes that are not native there. How many years from now do you believe their will be so many they will decimate the alligator population, if not completely to where alligators will be hard to find in the everglades, and found only along the Gulf?
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The estimated population of pythons in the Everglades is between 5,000 and 180,000. Between 2001 and 2005 there were only 200. Those numbers are scary.
I don’t know how many alligators there are, but I know I won’t be visiting Florida any time soon. The number one reason for me is the heat and humidity, the number two reason is too many people, and the number three reason is slimy, creepy creatures.
Hmm, I don’t know. Lots of big snakes are known for eating completely random things. Do you know if the new pythons in the area have found a taste for the alligators, and could be a threat to them? Or is it some confusion thing on the python’s part, coupled with the need to feed? Chances are, if the new environment isn’t bountiful to the python in regards to what it usually eats, the eating of an alligator was a last resort thing. If such is the case, the pythons would likely fuck off, or die. Unless the alligator is a serviceable source of nourishment for said snake. But in that case, if the pythons aren’t meant to be there, it’s probably gonna cause some ecological fuckery that will kill the pythons in the end, too. :/
I can’t tell you how crazy this python thing makes me. There is no reason to allow people to have exotic pets – it only leads to problems. They should be taxing the importers so that they can clean up the mess they made.
If the US had acted earlier and paid enough $$ for these snakes, we wouldn’t have this issue. Plenty of other species have been hunted to extinction, why not these? The government is still not issuing enough licenses for people to hunt the snakes and what really kills me is that there are shows where government officials catch the snakes only to take them to some snake farm. Why? So another hurricane can set them all free again?
Like I said, this topic makes me crazy.
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