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Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythons
Posted by Street Hawk on 1/25/17 at 11:54 pm280
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What Judas snakes, snake-sniffing dogs and even hunters from around the globe have struggled to accomplish may finally be pulled off by a pair of singing snake catchers from India: solving the riddle for finding Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades.
In just two weeks this month, the two tribesmen from Southern India, working with the University of Florida, caught 14 pythons. That included a monster 16-foot female holed up in the ruins of the old Nike missile base on Key Largo.
For perspective, consider last year’s second Python Challenge, an annual contest to draw attention to Florida’s python problem. The hunt attracted 1,000 hunters, most of them amateurs. Over a month, they managed to bag just 106 snakes. The year before, hunters snagged 68.
“People said, ‘They know how to hunt in India, not the Everglades, and cobras, not pythons,’” Mazzotti said.
Whitaker was certain the Irula, whose ancestors hunted pythons to the point of extinction in their state, would succeed.
Even to South Florida experts, Irula tracking techniques seem mysterious. They move slowly and rather than focus on roads and levees where snakes have typically been found basking, they head straight for thick brush. The Irulas believe the boulders and high grasses that line the levees are more lucrative hunting grounds. That seems to be proving true: UF biologist Ed Metzger has so far determined that seven of the 13 snakes captured would not have been found without the trackers.
“Since the Irula have been so successful in their homeland at removing pythons, we are hoping they can teach people in Florida some of these skills,” Kristen Sommers, chief of FWC’s Wildlife Impact Management Section, said in a statement.
As for the Irulas, they seem to be enjoying only their second trip out of India. Wasilewski has taken them to Arbetters for hotdogs and to his daughter-in-law’s school to talk to her AP environmental science class. On Sunday, they watched the NFL playoffs. But the big draw is clearly the snakes, the largest they have ever captured.
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Kafka on 1/25/17 at 11:56 pm to Street Hawk
quote:were nikes nukes?
the old Nike missile base on Key Largo
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Rize on 1/25/17 at 11:58 pm to Street Hawk
They ain't got shite on a bunch of coonasses. Have a big pot of rice and coonasses would make quick work of them.
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Jim Rockford on 1/26/17 at 12:39 am to Street Hawk
Dude on the right has huge feet.
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by speechles on 1/26/17 at 12:46 am to Jim Rockford
You know what that means
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by ihometiger on 1/26/17 at 12:57 am to speechles
He knows how to handle a snake is what that means
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by TexasTiger89 on 1/26/17 at 5:29 am to Street Hawk
That's interesting
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re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Jorts R Us on 1/26/17 at 5:30 am to Street Hawk
Those snakes Hindu nuffin
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Python on 1/26/17 at 6:20 am to Street Hawk
I'm not amused.
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by lsuroadie on 1/26/17 at 6:40 am to Street Hawk
this FL python sh!t is about to piss me off...
bus. drive bus. pierre part. sign...$100 snake hunt, free beer. coon asses. load bus. drive bus to everglades.
PROBLEM freaking solved!
bus. drive bus. pierre part. sign...$100 snake hunt, free beer. coon asses. load bus. drive bus to everglades.
PROBLEM freaking solved!
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by NoShow on 1/26/17 at 6:45 am to Street Hawk
Cool story bro
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by liz18lsu on 1/26/17 at 6:52 am to Street Hawk
FL life
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by Topwater Trout on 1/26/17 at 6:53 am to Street Hawk
but who is going to eradicate the indians
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by LSUBoo on 1/26/17 at 7:12 am to Topwater Trout
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but who is going to eradicate the indians
The ghost of Andrew Jackson.
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by idlewatcher on 1/26/17 at 7:58 am to Jorts R Us
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Those snakes Hindu nuffin
re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war on pythonsPosted by CoachChappy on 1/26/17 at 8:08 am to Street Hawk
2 ain't enough. We need to bring over a few 100 or 1000 of them
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