Python Hunters TV Show

The NatGeo Wild channel has been showing a series called Python Hunters. I just watched an episode called Python Hunters: The Perfect Storm. They spent much of the show refuting the claims that the burmese problem in the Florida Everglades was caused by released or escaped pets.

Here is the show synopsis: "The Python Hunters tackle the debate over how the Burmese pythons came to be established in the Everglades. These expert hunters will work to reveal how to eradicate the pythons and how they began to roam the land."

It is being shown again tomorrow (Monday July 26) from 11a-12p. Here is a link to their TV schedule as they have several other good Python Hunters episodes as well: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/wild/tv-schedule

I wish I had Nat Geo Wild :( Only have Nat Geo..

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

I wish I had Nat Geo Wild :( Only have Nat Geo..

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Yeah...it is a very limited availability channel. I have Fios and i'm pretty sure anyone who has Fios gets NatGeo Wild.

I'd get it if I upgraded my comcast account to the next level of channels provided.. sigh.

I'm enjoying this show, I think it's great.

Honestly, Its one of the best if not THE best herp shows I've watched. All the guys are funny, extremely logical and are actually conducting true science unlike the "science" proposed by the USGS.

I give it a 10 out of 10. :banana:

I enjoyed the few eps I gotten to watch I can't find it on natgeo site to watch the ones I missed. cause I keep forgetting what night and time it comes on ( tryingo t keep track of way to many things in my mind everyday as it is.) need to make a post it on the computer montior so I see it lol .

I like the show alot.

I am hoping they get start showing their private collections more. Alot of people dont even know you can be a snake breeder lol.

They actually established that the majority of burms in the wild are from when the hurricane hit years ago, and they've had time to breed since then.

Yay new episode on now!!!

I generally trust National Geographic, they usually do a very good job hiring experts in the fields who know what they are talking about.
Plus, they are good about putting up truthful and scientific information rather than what the media wants and feeds on.

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

I generally trust National Geographic, they usually do a very good job hiring experts in the fields who know what they are talking about.
Plus, they are good about putting up truthful and scientific information rather than what the media wants and feeds on.

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I agree 100%. Actually, one of the experts is Greg Graziani...and we all know that he knows his stuff.

Any idea if episodes are available ANYWHERE online? feel free to pm me if necessary

I was fascinated by the idea that the Burms are filling a depressed meso-carnivore niche in the everglades. I didn't realize that meso-carnivore populations were in decline there.

It certainly makes sense that, if they are, the Burms are shoring up the gap in the food web. Raccoon, opossum, and skunk could all do a lot of damage if overpopulated, let alone what non-natives like the Norway Rat are doing.

It's difficult to see how the Burms aren't fitting right in, based on the evidence so far. They're providing food for a variety of animals, and they're not eating anything an alligator or bobcat wouldn't take (fewer species than that, actually).
The Everglades would be better off with more bobcats and no Burms, but I was shocked to hear that fully 10% of the wildlife there is non-native, now. There is no way to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. That's a mess that simply cannot be cleaned up, at this point.

It's a little aggravating to think that all the fuss over the Burmese may boil down to just one thing--this is the first invader that poses a significant risk to little yap-dogs. Never mind the mass destruction created by animals such as cane toads and walking catfish, or plants like the Chinese Tallow Tree.

There's also a clear and obvious path for the Burms to survive in the long term, there...selective pressure is going to shrink them. They have to be small to survive cold snaps, so the animals that simply stay smaller will do better. Removing all of them seems vanishingly unlikely.

I thought it was interesting when they showed all of the iguanas living at the beachfront resort.... both greens and spinys....both of which are invasive. Not only are they tolerated, they are embraced. It just shows the general public's hysteria about an animal that they don't understand and snakes' bad reputations in general.

I often travel to places that the Python Hunters go, not those crazy hammocks in the middle of the glades. But certain roads and hidden areas that they travel. I love the show and its pretty much slapping Floridas new laws in the face because they are basically proving a lot of those theories and speculations about the burms etc wrong. Like stated above by "WingedWolfPsion"