Double post: reread this and it's full of even more biased and just plain false reporting!
"where officials say tens of thousands Burmese pythons have decimated populations of native mammals that had never before encountered such a large predator."
ALLIGATORS. EXIST. IN FLORIDA. And actively hunt and eat MORE pound for pound. They're also filling into the hole left by the loss of large native predators that where driven out by human encroachment, such as Florida panthers and the Florida black wolf. Florida black bears are also being pushed out.... not by burms but by pressures of human development and habitat loss. This article acts as if the everglades are full of nothing but cute, sparkle-eyed Bambis and Thumpers who have never seen a big, scary predator before, and will swoon into the snakes' jaws as a mass extinction event from pure shock.
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