I have been looking for the origin of the "no natural predators" quote and have yet to find it, it has been used as far back as 2004 if not prior to that time. No attribution yet. I suppose that it might be argued that it cannot have a natural predator in that it does not naturally occur in the area in question. That appears disingenuous at best, as there are obviously animals that prey on snakes in the Everglades. It is also probably true that large numbers of these animals are preyed upon by native species, but those are numbers that we will likely never know. The mortality of Burmese hatchlings is likely to remain an unknown quantity.



The lack of science knowledge of the general public is appalling and that ignorance is reinforced by the media in many ways. It is also easy to take advantage of that knowledge gap if you are so inclined or to misspeak and have that information repeated without critical analysis.

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