Seems like it's almost universally accepted that the presence of the pythons has an overall harmful effect on local wildlife. I question that. Not sure it's really possible to measure, but certainly basing that conclusion on the 5 or 6 hand picked anecdotes of the stomach contents of pythons is not science, nor is it a search for the truth. Like Tom said, feral cats have been found in a lot of the captured pythons. Pythons, compared to most other animals, just don't eat that much. Pythons provide a food source to local wildlife (raptors, alligators, possibly threatened Indigos snakes, etc.)

Again, the ecosystem is so complex that it's hard to measure, but at the same time putting pythons in the same category as snakehead fish, Kudzu or Zebra mussels is ridiculous at this point.

Thanks,
Ed




>>No one will ever get rid of the many thousands of these snakes living in a 4,000 square mile inaccessable subtropical swamp. They are here to stay....
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>>Tom Crutchfield
>>www.tomcrutchfield.com

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