>>" The park lost nine of the 10 radio-tagged snakes, including all eight females, but field surveys for several weeks following the cold snap found higher survival rates -- nearly 60 percent of 99 snakes spotted by his team of researchers were alive.

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>>Without expanded efforts to control them, he said, the snakes are likely to rebound in coming years. Only last week, his researchers documented a rare sighting showing that some of the survivors are well enough to engage in the propagation business."

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>>So, the survival rate is even higher than 10%...closer to 60% according to Mazzotti's findings. And the survivors are mating.

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>>Fascinating.



Not really. Without more info, it's meaningless. What would the survival rate be if you factor in the virtual certainty that a large percentage of dead pythons were eaten by scavengers? Then on top of that, factor in how many survivors have a terminal ri.

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