re: Florida "Glades Boys" capture a record-breaking 19 feet long 125 pound Burmese python

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there's a pretty sound theory that ground zero for the explosion of pythons in the everglades was a pet shop down there somewhere that got completely annihilated during Hurricane Andrew. apparently it was chock full of the damn things, which makes sense that that is what would start a population spread because so many of them were released in close proximity to one another. otherwise it would just be onesies and twosies across the area which seems unlikely would lead to such a huge population increase because the snakes wouldnt be able to find eachother to breed.

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Never heard that before. Good stuff

The root problem is still the same. For some reason a market exists to keep 20 foot long snakes that can swallow a feral pig whole as pets