The hurricane supposedly let over 200 adult Burmese pythons loose in the Everglades. Those 200 individuals were in close proximity to one another (at least a good portion of them likely were). That made it easy to find each other and breed. If it were only pet owners, the individual snakes would have a much harder time finding one another. I have no scientific evidence backing that statement, but it makes sense to me.Originally Posted by RuthlessReptiles
Couldn't it have been a combination of the two? I mean, come on. Some people aren't really smart. There's a college campus around here that has a huge domesticated rabbit overpopulation problem. Kids got tired of taking care of their buns and released them and they went and made a whole bunch of babies. Why wouldn't someone do the same with a snake?
And the baby eating comment is one of my personal favs
I'm not familiar with Burmese python breeding, but I imagine rabbits can have more babies per year than a Burmese.Not to mention they likely have less environmental necessities for those babies to develop and thrive.
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