Python Hunt on in Everglades

[BlackwaterUSA93]

I just had an idea for another "anaconda" film...

[dager925]

@BlackwaterUSA93 it would be called python though

[DALE97DSM]

I watched animal planet show, a few weeks ago. About an 20 foot rock python on the loose around Miami, that attacked shallowed a 12 yr old boy whole. The snake hasn't been caught, search/rescue showed up late but the snake left a massive in dent in the dirt, to show how heavy it is. I'm looking for clips of this on youtube so I can send to my aunt in south Florida. If someone knows the youtube link of this. post it up.

[slither190]

because u dont under stand the snakes i hate people

[fuckvegan]

They should eradicate all the people in Florida first as none are native and are invasive species causing pollution. Why blame the innocent pythons that were released by irresponsible pet owners ?

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

humans are native to nowhere except a small area in south africa where a species of tiger is our only true natural predator and actively stalk villages for eating.

[workman7393]

@Pimpmastahanhduece agreed, fla is where America goes to die anyways. I have four of these pythons and they are much more intelligent and good natured than most ignorant red necks scouring the everglades for food that ive ran into.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

i have nothing against the pythons, and maybe not you because I dont know if your a responsible owner. but people who get pythons who just abandon them when they get too big are both ignorant for not taking into account the responsibility of caring for that kind of animal, or cruel towards the animal for releasing it into the wild where it isnt native. cruel to the native wildlife in the region.I sure hope your in it for the long haul. at least the meat doesnt go to waste with some hunters.

[pikmin123456]

I dont feel sorry for anyone who goes and kills these poor animals that have souls also.

[TheSolaceDream]

just kill them and get it over with. But dont punish responsible pet owners for it.

[TylerFknMetal]

How in the world does one find the pythons?

[hondaford]

when will florida get it through they're dumb ass head, their is no way of stopping it anymore, and if their was a chance it would cost billions and billions of dollars to do so. killing them will only make the snakes want to populate even more! since they're a dominant species, and having to go against American alligators, they will do all what they're nature calls for. I'm trying to stop them from just simply killing, they won't be able to stop it. its near impossible! study they're nature!

[Jenfucius]

@lnquistor53

Nope not a slip up.

Dont take any of my posts too seriously. Just having fun.

[Jenfucius]

@lnquistor53

aaagh! You found me!!!!

Okay I dont really hate snakes!

Hey dont take my posts too seriously. Those bills ended like last year.

Just having some fun. Be happy.

[snakepunk13]

name me ONE person caught releasing EVEN ONE burmese python into the everglades until you can produce the name of a person doing so, your claims of them being released by pet owners are are inncorrect

[Jenfucius]

@snakepunck13

Those those pythons are NOT native to the evergaldes.

[snakepunk13]

There are many plants and animals in the everglades that aren't native. The most destructive animals being house cats and wild pigs. Unfortunately stray cats don't get the media attention (or federal grant money) like giant snakes do.

[Jenfucius]

@snakepunk13

Those non native species also has to go (or at best managed).

The hunting of pythons in Florida is open to to the public and its mainly inidviduals whose doing the eradication.

[snakepunk13]

If the fact that pythons HAVE killed humans is your reason for wanting to outlaw them, then I suppose you also are against the ownership of dogs? Or what about outlawing horses since they cause the most animal related fatalities in the US?

Can you give me links to substantiate your weekly news stories of pythons?

[Jenfucius]

If you love America and our unique wildlife shoot these invaders.

[snakepunk13]

If you love America, then you will support the "pursuit of happiness", even if that happiness is from keeping, breeding and selling an animal YOU personally don't care for. I don't like guns, football, or beer, but I understand that others do, and in a free country, they have the right to do what they enjoy.

[Jenfucius]

@snakepunk13

"pursuit of happiness" is rather ambiguous. It could mean alot fo things.

I could just as well say killing pythons is my "pursuit of happiness".

I could have just as well say perserving native species in our national parks is "my pursuit of happiess".

etc etc

[snakepunk13]

While I personally don't like hunting, I'm not against it either, as long as it is managed properly.

I don't see how hunting pythons is an different than hunting deer, alligator, or waterfowl.

However, I do not think burmese pythons are to blame for destroying native species.

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[Jenfucius]

@snakepunk13

I agree hunting has to be managed properly.

The main difference would be invasive non native species vs native species.

[Camilookb]

Hell yeah! pythons beware Ima go buy a rifle right now...

[mcdowelli76]

The everglades was declared cleaned up in 2007. This is just a attempt to get more money for Florida by senator Nelson.How come no one has been caught releasing a python. Anyone who knows someone released one and did nothing is as guilty as whoever released it. Or does everyone like to point a finger and do nothing about it.

[2006nationalchamps]

you basterds will never kill all of them if they are over populated then how the hell will you find them huh bunch of dummies i have a 12ft burmese and lovem hey while your at it lets kill off the wild boars to and the gators why not thier over populated to and the deer population also DUMASSES !!!!!!!!!!!!!

ATLEAST catch them and give them to a place they cant get out of like a sanctuary!

and also arrest the ones who turn these snakes loose bunch of losers.

[snakepunk13]

No one has ever been caught releasing them. The population in the everglades can be traced back to hurricane andrew destroying the warehouses of importers.

[Inmate527]

This is what I call job creation. :P

[snakepunk13]

Exactly, this whole thing is nothing more than a way to get grant money for "research".

[MtWhiteCld]

I have been to Glades countless times never saw a python nor have met anyone who works there who has. I suspect much of the news reports ,etc are staged . They are there but not in the numbers some say. I know 2 guys who work in Glades going on 10 yrs and not one sighting even most of the air boat drivers have not seen one

[pastrykingdom]

the pythons will win.

[390MUDDIN]

There's been several speculations on how the burmese python initially became introduced in the Everglades... one is the filming of "Tarzan" in the early 20th century (most of the animals were simply released after filiming).. Others say it was the flooding caused by the devastating hurricane Andrew (which allowed pythons to escape pet shop enclosures)... and of course, the un-prepared owners who underestimated the the massive mature size of their pet pythons, and just let them loose.

[snakepunk13]

It's doubtful an adult kept in captivity it's entire life would survive long in the wild.

[zac41189]

Really? Think about that for a minute. They have a perfect enviroment... tropical temperatures year round, gator burrows everywhere, an endless supply of food and water, and virtually no natural predators. They've found 15 foot Amelanistic (albino) burms out there eating chickens and other small game. An albino hatched out there would have no chance of reaching that size naturally... that means it was let go at an older age, and managed to adapt and thrive.

[snakepunk13]

They have MANY predators, everything from birds to alligators. Finding an albino doesn't mean it was released, it could have escaped on it's own or as a consequence to a natural disaster such as hurricane andrew. A large albino, while not worth what they used to be, still has some monetary value, so I highly doubt it was purposefully released.

[390MUDDIN]

The aformentioned specimen was not born in the wild, it was either let go, or as you mentioned, somehow escaped on it's own accord. Due to its size, predation was not likely a factor, it adapted quickly, and apparently was doing quite well for itself.

Bottom line, these snakes have proven time and again that adaptation to a foriegn enviroment, such as the Florida Everglades, is no problem at all.

--The Burmese python has succesfully established itself as a permanent species in the 'Glades.

[390MUDDIN]

A baby burm may fall prey to a bird, but any specimen over 7 feet is almost surely not on the "avian menu." And yes, the American alligators and crocodiles are the animals biologists hope will keep the python population from exploading any further (thus far this logic has failed.)

--My point with regarding the amelanistic trait of these snakes is this; roughly all animals born with a trait that comprises a niche needed to survive in the wild, will not.

[snakepunk13]

Something people need to remember is that the burms are just another of a long line of exotics in the everglades. Almost none of the original everglades of a century or two ago exist today. It happened LONG before the burms, but exotic plants and tropical fish don't attract the media attention like giant snakes.

Nature has a way of balancing itself out, but that sort of thinking doesn't get tax-payer grant money flowing in to the state "study" the situation.

[moviedude22]

How the heck did the Burmese Python become "introduced" in the first place? The plane ticket alone must cost an arm an a leg...a scale and a skin?? Idk

[reesemoe69]

in 1992 Hurricane Andrew destroyed dozens and dozens of licensed centers that kept exotic pets including the Pythons...The Pythons escaped and roamed into the Everglades where they found that vast land to their liking so now they call it home..true story

[390MUDDIN]

Oh, don't think I won't be skinning these guys after caputure. Done right, a large properly preserved python skin can bring in some bucks from even a wholesale purchaser.

[redrider187x]

There Skin is Next to worthless you IDIOT!

[390MUDDIN]

Haha, next to worthless? Tell that to the New York leather distributors who charge an arm and a leg for a pair of cheaply made python skin boots. Don't think I don't love these snakes with a passion, I own a 10 foot female, and I work with large constictors on a daily basis; but if I've got a chance to make some good money hunting pythons, don't think I'm going to pass that up.

[390MUDDIN]

Introduced feril species are a part of nearly every ecosystem on earth... 99% of the time, mother nature will find a way to elimate the intruders; this won't be the case in Florida. If the game and fish department in Florida would put a "price-per-head" or "cash per foot" system in place, I'd be down there in a heart beat... Guaranteed work for the rest of my life

[hozehd]

If you were to learn how to make things out of python skin no one from the government would have to pay you.

[390MUDDIN]

There is no way Python molurus bivittatus (the burmese python) will ever be eradicated from Florida. They have unlimited access food, water, shelter, heat... and so on. With over 1 million acres in the everglades national park ALONE, we have nowhere near the man power or resources to even dent this massive population.The conditions in S. Florida are far better than even their native habitats of SE India and Asia. .

[pastrykingdom]

i agree. the eveglades will be python territory

[markos1388]

they will never find them all