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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   Exotic and invasive species are (and for centuries have been) a serious problem around the world. The problem is getting worse as the planet warms.
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   Hey snake, bite his p—-s off.
   Then he’ll shoot at you and shoot his own b—-s off instead.
   They call that natural selection.
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   mdavis4183 said, 5 months ago

   Lowe needs to be hugged by a Buenese Python.
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   Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

   Having lived in Florida all but 7 years of my life, that time being taken up by service to my country, and having lived and worked in South Florida for many years, this is NOT a joke and this is NOT a symptom of climate change.
   
   The “pet reptile” craze and the short attention span of those that indulge in it is the problem. From the years when caymans where sold as baby alligators and released into the local ponds when they got to be a foot long or so and bit junior or when the iguana got to big for the cage and slipped out to when the pet snake ate the family cat as a snack or grew to a two rat every three day appetite and got dropped off in the nearest swamp, we have grown to find the everglades infested with pythons of massive size that are now large enough to consume small to medium gators and will destroy the fragile ecosystem in the ’glades if something is not done about it.
   
   Yeah, let the swap dwellers loose to hunt them down. Put a bounty on the hide, get a PR firm to praise the flavor and texture and the protein value of the meat. Yep, best way to get rid of something is to get people to eat them and have no restrictions on hunting them.
   
   Maybe it would work on the land developers too……LOL
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   No-one-cares said, 5 months ago

   @Bruce4671

   Land developers just could not taste good too oily…
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   @Eryx

   Ohh… another ‘sky is falling’ comment. North America had 300 foot glaciers covering it 30,000 years ago. Had natural warming not occurred no one would be living and farming it today. It would be a wasteland as the poles.
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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   @mdavis4183

   “Burmese”.
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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   @Bruce4671

   That’s been tried and it’s not working. A recent cold snap killed more pythons than the hunters did. There will be fewer such weather adjustments as time goes on (and as the pytons adapt). Meanwhile, they are eating Florida’s mammals, including (yes) bobcats.
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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Ima, you’ve been smacked down enough on your global warming denial foolishness by now.
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    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Invasive species in the ’glades, and water diversion, has drastically altered south Florida. No, the pythons are NOT a joke, at all. Neither are all the noxious weeds, and “pretty birds” like starlings that some moron thought would do well here Anybody got a dandelion problem, another species gone nuts, like Kudzu.

    
    Oceans once kept species in their native habitats, and human progress in transportation has destroyed much of the planet’s species. Interestingly, while folks can see pythons, and get upset, they can’t see those polluted oceans, or don’t worry about that insignificant factor of human change impact, climate.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago

    @Eryx

    Bobcats? Wow! So my idea about importing mongoose is out of the question I guess…
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @Eryx

    Actually, In Florida, it’s because Floridians keep these snakes as Pets, and when they get too big for them to handle, they release them into the Everglades, This is where the Python population is exploding. Has zero to do with Global Warming.

    Of course, if you had been watching NBC News instead f Fox News, you wold know this as NBC News has covered this many times.
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Thank You!

    NBC News has covered this many times.
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @Eryx

    Hey, Educate yourself with NBC News, NBC News has repeatedly said the Python Problem in Florida has zero to do with Global Warming and everything to do with residents who get these snakes as pets when they’re small and when they grow too big to feed, they release them outdoors.
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Educate yourself,The Population of Pythons is due to residents who go them as pets when the were babies and released them into the ’Glades when they got too big to handle.

    If you had been watching NBC News instead of Fox News, you would know this as NBC News has covered every Spring and they will cover it again in March or April
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