They didn’t say if the one that survived happened to be in a cage in the lab at the time, either. Has anyone heard of any python hunters being able to go out and spot or capture (not always the same thing) more than a couple of pythons at a time? We are lead to believe from this report that their own guys have found 99 in just a few weeks, of which “nearly sixty percent” whatever that means, exactly, were still alive. I know finding the stinky rotting ones is fairly easy, but finding live ones is still not. I’m not sure I believe they have found that many live ones. How many field ops do they have doing this? We are supposed to believe two or three guys have found 99? I know one organized hunt before the cold weather, on land suspected of being ground zero for African rocks, turned up nothing. I wonder why they are not able to take a reporter out and find one? It seems to me the “facts” are in and the push for legislation is full steam ahead despite the science that more or less proves this is a Florida problem and not a federal case. These snakes are basically feeding on things that fox and bob cats used to eat. Since those native predators have been driven further into the most remote wilderness areas, aren’t the pythons actually having net zero effect on native populations of rats opossums, raccoons and wading birds? Aren’t the python eggs and juveniles actually providing more food for remaining native wildlife than fox and bob cats did when they occupied this niche? I don’t get the argument that they are harmful to native wild life. Except maybe native rats.

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