Reddit Post on Pythons in Everglades

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comm...he_everglades/

Anybody out there interested in chiming in?

wow that's terrible

Wow....I had more faith in Reddit...:mad:

If I commented I'd have to ban myself. :rage:

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Originally Posted by RuthlessReptiles

Wow....I had more faith in Reddit...:mad:

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So did I. I read the first few top comments earlier and had to close the tab. I really thought reddit of all places wouldn't have a bunch of redneck "kill the pythons" comments.

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Originally Posted by dr del

If I commented I'd have to ban myself. :rage:

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LOL..Thank you Del....That made my day. :)

And to the OP...I've lost just about ALL faith in anyone..... I really don't know what to say to most of the stuff being posted..

I almost typed a bad word... And in a post were i quoted a mod..WOW...FAIL almost...lol

Ignorance. Just plain ignorance. The frosts of 2010 took out massive numbers of reptiles in the glades. But they arent gonna tell ya this cause then it defeats the agenda. Instead of bounties on pythons they should put bounties on ignorant people.

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Originally Posted by snake lab

Ignorance. Just plain ignorance. The frosts of 2010 took out massive numbers of reptiles in the glades. But they arent gonna tell ya this cause then it defeats the agenda. Instead of bounties on pythons they should put bounties on ignorant people.

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Agreed! I live in Florida...and we could definitely use a LOT less ignorant people. Lol.

My cousins have a charter fishing buisness in islamorada in the keys and i do alot of fishing down there and i was down there in 2010 during those frosts. I can tell ya from my experience it was bad for the entire region. We saw dead schools of bait fish inland which is real bad cause fish have the range to find warmer waters so if it affected fish then its obvious it affected land based reptiles. The thing about these surveys is they can write whatever they want and people believe it if it comes from a credible source. How do we really know what the truth is? There is no way the pythons in the glades were killing the numbers of animals they are saying. Here in virginia when the dgif does herd surveys on deer in different regions its all done on speculation. There is no way they can know how many animals are in a certain region. Therefore theres no way to know how many animals the snakes are eating in the glades. Are they catching these snakes and cutting em open? No. Are they observing the snakes eating? No. Do they even have an idea how many pythons are there? Absolutely not. What they are doing is finding some pythons in a block of land of say 2 miles square. Then they say for every 2 mile block thetes this many pythons for the entire region. Its all pure speculation at its best. Speculators always ruin everything.