Where are all the dead Pythons??????

[Big Gunns]

I'm sorry, but the experts disagree with BG. I know it's hard to believe. If deer, elk and bear bones can disappear within a few short weeks, a snake's skeleton doesn't stand a chance. Just small animals alone can strip a snake down to the bones in no time, with many parts of the snake's skeketon going with the small animals. Then what's left of the skeleton wouldn't stand a chance agains the ants, grubs, worms, then you'd have the microbes eating away anything else that was left. Look it up. Nature is very good at cleaning the woods/forest/Everglades.

Jim Smith

"A few weeks" is plenty of time to find even 500 dead pythons. They were never there to begin with. Not in those numbers. They seem to know how many Crocs died give or take a few by how many bodies they found. Well????

The absence of corpses is an argument for both sides. Proponents of the ban will say there are no corpses because they are still alive and opponents will say there are few corpses because there weren't many to begin with. The arguments negate each other and they don't lead to any clear conclusion, just more speculation. As such, I wouldn't recommend making the lack or pythons bones a bullet point in the argument against the ban.

But, my $.02 is that (1) iguanas do not avoid humans with the same gusto as snakes (so dead iguanas may be more likely to be found) and (2) pythons will tend to stay (and die) in burrows/extremely thick brush (or other forms of dark seclusion). Combine this with the scavenger argument and I don't think we'll ever see much in the way of bones.

BG made the same point in his original post. They'll try and twist it, but it's harder for them to do so because their microchipped animals died. If they died...so would the others.