Deer are over populated because of there natural predatores have been killed off. Wild hogs were introduced. Snakes are in your backyard because you came to theres.
All of these "problems" You can call it are because of human expansion. So no snakes are not becoming over populated. A reasonal number of animals can be killed each year. That includes but is not limited to bear, rattlesnakes, and alligators. Rattlesnake round ups are not a reasonable number. Alligators were not killed in a reasonable number neither were buffalos. But because of human expansion we killed them off then let them expand again to bring there numbers up. After that no one focused and realized what the carrying capacity is which is why there numbers exploded for example alligators. Which if you dont know what that is, is the population of an animal that can be substained in one area. Most deer populations are the result of the same situation, they were killed off then humans noticed the lack of deer, let them regain a population or introduced them elsewhere and the numbers exploded.
Hogs are not supposed to be here. So they can be killed off, actually most people will pay you to kill them. But once again the cause of this is human expansion. People brought them here and they are breeding machines.
Anyway rattlesnakes populations are not exploding, that is a lie to continue to kill them. They have natural predators to kill them off, humans kill thousands of them off a year eitherway with or without the round up hicks destroying them.
Ive lost hope in animal planet a long time ago when they took off nature documentaries and only put on dog and cat shows. Now all they do is exploit animals to try to make a profit.
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