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re: 18' Florida Python
Posted on 7/19/24 at 2:44 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 7/19/24 at 2:44 pm to Auburn1968
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Then there is this.
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Posted on 7/19/24 at 2:55 pm to Auburn1968
The python removal competition begins at 12:01 a.m. on August 9, 2024 and ends at 5 p.m. on August 18, 2024. Register now!
https://flpythonchallenge.org/
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The Florida Everglades is an extraordinary ecosystem unlike any other in the world! It is home to a variety of rare and unique wildlife including a diversity of native birds, mammals, fish and reptiles.
However, some reptiles, like the invasive Burmese python, do not belong in this ecosystem and pose a threat to native wildlife. The Florida Python Challenge™ is an exciting conservation effort which helps protect the rare Everglades habitat and the animals that live there from these invasive, nonnative snakes.
Learn more about opportunities to remove pythons year-round outside of the ten-day Florida Python Challenge™.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 2:57 pm to Shexter
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Hunting on Private Land: Nonnative reptiles like Burmese pythons can be humanely killed on private lands at any time with landowner permission - no permit required- and the FWC encourages people to capture and humanely kill pythons from private lands whenever possible. There is no bag limit.
Eggcellent
Posted on 7/19/24 at 3:19 pm to Auburn1968
Many people in Guam are protective of the wild dogs which they term "Boony dogs." Doing anything which might endanger those mangy mutts would be resisted by many locals.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 3:21 pm to Rabby
Everybody needs to mind their own business.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 4:29 pm to Shexter
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The python removal competition begins at 12:01 a.m. on August 9, 2024 and ends at 5 p.m. on August 18, 2024. Register now!
That a good thing, but I doubt it makes so much as a dent in exploding population.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 4:30 pm to LRB1967
It's open season year round for pythons. There's also a team of paid professionals that hunt pythons year round.
The annual rodeo is to add an extra level of awareness and competition, with a monetary prize, but is certainly not the only time of year pythons can be hunted.
The annual rodeo is to add an extra level of awareness and competition, with a monetary prize, but is certainly not the only time of year pythons can be hunted.
Posted on 7/19/24 at 7:42 pm to shell01
In 20 years, pythons have gone from a small breeding population in extreme south and spread to nearly 1/4 of the state. What will the next 20 years bring if they are not eradicated?
Posted on 7/19/24 at 7:51 pm to Auburn1968
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The real question is who can they be eradicated!
It's a difficult question
Posted on 7/20/24 at 8:57 am to Auburn1968
Burn the everglades down
Posted on 7/20/24 at 9:34 am to Auburn1968
It’s hard to think anything much more nightmarish than brown tree snakes everywhere.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 10:05 am to TejasHorn
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Something like 90% of the mammal population in the Everglades is now gone. Maybe they’ll eat themselves to death.
Once the food supply is gone in the Everglades, they start to migrate to other areas, and that often includes populated areas where they will feast on people's pet dogs and cats and come into direct contact with humans.
That 18 ft. python could easily kill and eat a small child.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 12:17 pm to LegendInMyMind
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They can't. It is now more of an attempt to control and manage issue. We're not going to eliminate them.
Here's good resource for pythons and other species as to sightings/reports
LINK https://www.eddmaps.org/species/
Then plug in what you are searching for
Here are all python reports.
There's a bunch.
LINK https://www.eddmaps.org/distribution/viewmap.cfm?sub=18355
Posted on 7/20/24 at 2:19 pm to Auburn1968
"releasing thousands of rats, mice and rabbit carriers could make a big impact."
Yes, on the raptor and owl population of Florida.
Yes, on the raptor and owl population of Florida.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 3:15 pm to Tigris
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"releasing thousands of rats, mice and rabbit carriers could make a big impact."
Yes, on the raptor and owl population of Florida.
That's a good question. Tylenol is very toxic to snakes and reptiles. But how does it affect birds should they eat the plastic collar of a bait animal? Birds I've had are pretty picky about that kind of stuff. Alligators wouldn't be so much effected because they don't tend to hunt on land while pythons do.
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Abstract
The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of acetaminophen on kidneys of birds by comparison with diclofenac that is used as positive control. The birds of Group I served as negative control and received normal saline, whereas Group II birds received diclofenac injection (2.5 mg/kg IM) and Group III birds received acetaminophen injection (10 mg/kg IM) for a period of seven days daily. The birds treated with diclofenac showed severe clinical signs of toxicity accompanied with high mortality and significant increase (P<0.001) in serum creatinine and uric acid concentration. The creatinine and uric acid concentrations were consistent with gross and histopathological findings. The negative control and acetaminophen-treated groups showed no adverse clinical signs, serum creatinine and uric acid concentrations were normal, and no gross or histopathological changes in kidneys were observed. Thus, it was concluded that acetaminophen can be used for treatment in birds without any adverse effect on kidneys.
Keywords: Acetaminophen; birds; diclofenac; nephrotoxicity.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21170252/
This post was edited on 7/20/24 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 7/20/24 at 3:41 pm to Auburn1968
This would seem to a better approach than randomly catching and killing the damn things. Keep the males and give them a tracker to find the females. That's what caught the 215 pound egg laden female in the original post.
Another was found because it had eaten an a tagged possum.
https://www.wusf.org/environment/2019-11-15/how-to-eradicate-pythons-get-them-to-come-to-us-expert-says
Another was found because it had eaten an a tagged possum.
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Worley: What you do is you put a transmitter in a male python, and it will lead you to a bunch of females. Because basically, for population control, it's all about the ladies. You've got to get the females out of the population, because those are the ones that are going to breed. So we use the males against them.
https://www.wusf.org/environment/2019-11-15/how-to-eradicate-pythons-get-them-to-come-to-us-expert-says
Posted on 7/20/24 at 4:05 pm to Auburn1968
Some people seem to make good money from this. I think that one should be around $400 maybe. Florida pays $50 for a small one then $25 for each foot after.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 4:09 pm to Auburn1968
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This would seem to a better approach
Posted on 7/20/24 at 4:13 pm to Tupelo
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The question that I have is why they don't allow people to just shoot them, instead of catching them alive? A shotgun would be more efficient, and less hazardous to the snake hunter.
Because, just like hogs, they don't truly care about eradicating them.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 4:30 pm to LEASTBAY
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Some people seem to make good money from this. I think that one should be around $400 maybe. Florida pays $50 for a small one then $25 for each foot after.
In India they did a bounty program on cobras. It worked for a while until they found out that people were breeding cobras to get the bounty.
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