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One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
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Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#32So when can we start writing articles glazing the US's most lethal cat hunters? They're an invasive species in most states and kill billions of native birds every year.
When you find enough suicidal people to establish “cat hunter” as a profession and they survive long enough to make it a competition. Every cat lover with a gun would be out hunting them back.
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Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
“No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.“
Soon we'll be trying to telegraph just how much of a cultural phenomenon this show was, and come off like Abe.
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Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#34Introducing natural predators for pythons like the king cobra might be a more scalable solution. It’s very hard to shoot all the members of an invasive species.
A wonderful work of late Terry Pratchett comes to mind:
“We got a bit carried away,” said Moist. “We were a bit too creative in our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep down the snakes…” Lord Vetinari said nothing. “Er… which, admittedly, we introduced into the letter boxes to reduce the number of toads…” Lord Vetinari repeated himself. “Er… which, it’s true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down the snails…” Lord Vetinari remained unvocal. “Er… These, I must in fairness point out, got into the boxes of their own accord, in order to eat the glue on the stamps,” said Moist, aware that he was beginning to burble
Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know what happened regarding cats as rabbit hunters in Australia?
Cane toads, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
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Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#36So when can we start writing articles glazing the US's most lethal cat hunters? They're an invasive species in most states and kill billions of native birds every year.
Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#37I wonder why they're not using thermal cameras. Snakes are ectothermic, but they still show up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOL0RocIUI0
I was thinking about technological solutions.
Maybe some combination of cameras (thermal, traditional, maybe even Lidar) combining data and processing it to detect at least likely pythons.
It wouldn't have to be perfect, but I imagine such a solution could be more effective than even the most experienced and talented human python spotter.
Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#38Introducing natural predators for pythons like the king cobra might be a more scalable solution. It’s very hard to shoot all the members of an invasive species.
A wonderful work of late Terry Pratchett comes to mind: “We got a bit carried away,” said Moist. “We were a bit too creative in our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep down the snakes…” Lord Vetinari said nothing. “Er… which, admittedly, we introduced into the letter boxes to reduce the number of toads…” Lord Vetinari repeated himself. “Er… which, it’s true, staff put in the postin…
The Simpsons did it first: https://youtu.be/3f5viRoaZNw?si=YcVu452gEypmYn6Q&t=72
Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#39how do we know that the Florida python bounty doesnt repeat the Cobra effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
It’s an hourly wage and the pay isn’t high enough to cover costs of breeding pythons. A python can weigh over 200lb. It takes a lot to support a snake that big and they monitor sizes to ensure the catch matches what you would expect from a wild population.
It’s an hourly wage and the pay isn’t high enough to cover costs of breeding pythons.
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Re: One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
#40So when can we start writing articles glazing the US's most lethal cat hunters? They're an invasive species in most states and kill billions of native birds every year.
I mean - we do sort of. We just TNR them (trap, neuter, release), because we don't have much appetite to euthanize fuzzy cute animals we see as pets.
Sadly, it looks like the program is struggling to find funding: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/...