how the pythons got into the ENP is going to make any difference concerning legislation. Unfortunalty, this whole thing evolves around some science, some emotion, some knowledge and all politics. To say that it is not due to some released animals is to be naive. I spent 33 years snake hunting in the Tampa Bay area and in those years I caught two burmese pythons, one a 13 footer in 1980, two boa constrictors, one four foot and the other six foot, one anaconda about nine foot which died about two days after capture (1976) and one Children's python about five foot long. All but the 13 foot burmese where found in extremely rural settings, which indicate to me releases rather then escapees. The large burm was found in a pretty congested area, so probably an escaped animal. While this thread has been educational at times, ridiculous at times, emotional at times, funny and insightful, the bottom line, IMHO it is still all about "politics" and nothing is going to change that.

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