another burm hunt video

from cnn.com (if this has already been posted i apologize.)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tec...on.hunters.cnn

That sucks... I know something needs to be done but I feal bad for the snake.

I feel so so bad for the snake

Ya thats sad but imagine running that thing over with your car, talk about feeling bad.....:(

It is going to be impossible for them to eradicate almost 100,000 burms in as little as a few months.

Very sad that this has to happen...

Studied... ok
Destroyed... not so much

Why dont they donate them to Zoos, Breeders, or return them to India

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Originally Posted by TimmyG

Studied... ok
Destroyed... not so much

Why dont they donate them to Zoos, Breeders, or return them to India

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While this is desirable it is not possible, inexpensive, or likely. The man in the video I'm sure doesn't want them to be destroyed either, but he knows he has to remove them.

No breeder would want a wild Burm in their facility. Zoos are already filled up as it is, and transportation to India is FAR beyond expensive.

speaking of india, i wonder if the situation would be any different if these were indian pythons

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Originally Posted by TimmyG

Studied... ok
Destroyed... not so much

Why dont they donate them to Zoos, Breeders, or return them to India

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They are studying them. Google "Aiken Burmese Python" :rofl:

Killing them won't have much of an impact on the population, but an impact nonetheless.

Like blackcrystal said, zoos are full and breeders have no desire, but returning them back to India..? Relocated snakes often die... it's not good.

Later, Matt

Remember too, there's no proof there is 100,000 pythons in the everglades. The numbers are unknown, with the 100,000 possibility ebing snagged from a biologist that said a area the size of the everglades could support a population that high.. from what I read on another link.
I think a biologist said there could be 5,000 to 50,000, we just don't know. But everyone has been hung up on the number 100,000.

Any word from the python hunt on how many have been spotted so far?

Probably a stupid point but isn't the Everglades called the "river of grass"? Which I take to mean lots of water.

Makes me wonder exactly how much habitat is suitable for the Burmese python. These animals need land. They're not anacondas and don't live in water. So they wouldn't be living in the middle of the Everglades but living on the fringes of the Everglades.

I wonder exactly how much of the Everglades is, in fact, water and therefore uninhabitable to the Burmese python?

There's plenty of land...

Later, Matt