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60 percent of 99 were dead?

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Posted by: boaphile at Wed Mar 24 13:37:12 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by boaphile ]  
   

"...nearly 60 percent of 99 snakes spotted by his team of researchers were alive."



Of what significance is this exactly? The vast majority of dead animals would have been eaten by other animals. So the fact that of 99 Burmese Pythons spotted that 60 of them were dead is mind boggling! Imagine how many others had to have died for there to be 60 dead animals just laying around!



Plus something else known to people who have knowledge about Pythons. Simply being "alive" in no way means that the animal is not going to die as a result of the cold weather. These animals originate from the South East Asian Rain Forest. This does not occur there, and these animals are continuing to die in large numbers after contracting respiratory illnesses after this little cold snap.



What is really going to be interesting is how difficult will it be to find live Burmese Pythons in the Glades this summer. Most likely very few. The march that the USGS government contracted scientists, Gordon Rodda and Robert Reed made about Burmese going all the way to Washington DC is now abundantly laughable. Laughable if it weren’t for the fact that the ridiculous claims they made weren’t obviously ideologically driven. I'm sure Burms that survived the cold in the Glades have already ordered their snow shoes and parkas from Amazon.com to deal with the winter weather they cannot survive.
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