I just came across this paper:

The Rat Race: Protecting the Key Largo Woodrat -- by Christina Alligood (PhD) and Anne Savage (PhD), published in August of 2008.

http://www.favorfloridakeys.com/f_rat_aug08_web.pdf

Here's a very interesting quote from that paper:

"Understanding the factors that influence the stability of Key Largo woodrat wild populations is of urgent concern. A major dis- covery was made in 2007 as the leader of our field team was track- ing a radio-collared Key Largo woodrat. She found that a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus), had eaten one of the collared Key Largo woodrats! This resulted in an intensive effort to examine the distribution of Burmese pythons (a non-native, invasive spe- cies on Key Largo) and their impact on the Key Largo woodrats. In 2007, several Burmese pythons were killed on the road near the ref- uges and all of these pythons had consumed at least one Key Largo woodrat. "

Did ya see that?? ALL of the pythons they found had eaten AT LEAST one woodrat each.

Let's not see any more claims about just one python supposedly eating just one rat, okay??

(Oh, and yes -- the paper mentions cats too!)
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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