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So 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.
> the Everglades and its web of life as we know it have existed for five thousand years. Typo? Creationism? That seems like a very short period of time.
Even only going back a couple thousand years the changes have been huge (desertification in the ME and North Africa).
Very well written article. Informative, sensible and articulate without going that New Yorker style that I find boring.
> without going that New Yorker style What is that style, exactly?
What's the point? The pythons are there now, and there's no way to capture them all.
This does seem like a doomed-to-fail stopgap kind of solution, but sometimes stopgaps are all you've got.
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They get paid per verified kill: https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program No idea how it actually works but shooting them where they are has to be tough to verify.
It has to be easier to get a dead python into your truck than a live one, right?
Garret Galvin @fishingarrett has made a name for himself yoinking all sorts of critters in the wild but in particular seems to be targeting invasive pythons in the Everglades. He's very entertaining if you like nature stuff, he's like Steve Irwin's spiritual successor.
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You know what happened regarding cats as rabbit hunters in Australia?
Cane toads, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
This might be a bit gruesome, but why not shoot the snakes the on site? That seems way easier and faster than physically wrestling dangerous snakes sometimes bigger than yourself, throwing them in your truck, and shooting them in your garage. Is it just the solemnity? The chance of missing and it escaping and the difficulty of wrestling with a gun?
I think a gene drive will be cheaper than all of this manual labor. Release a male python that can only sire male pythons, and population collapse is inevitable. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6083257/
- Your method should result in the animal losing consciousness immediately.
- You should then destroy the animal's brain by “pithing” which prevents the animal from regaining consciousness.
Looking at the diagram, the head is very small in comparison to the entire body. Perhaps that is why shooting is discouraged. I cannot find a source that states that shooting is illegal. There are limitations on where pythons can be hunted, which is on private land with permission or some public lands. That is mostly going to be a safety and private property protection purposes.
The website states "Members of the public may not transport pythons alive and must humanely kill pythons at the capture location. However, python skins or meat may be kept and/or sold."