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Calparsoni
at Sat Sep 25 06:16:01 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Calparsoni ]
hey have many predators eating them in the everglade (All the fear mongers like to say “they have no natural predators” which is technically true, no predator “native” to their land are predators here
Technically even that statement is untrue. Feral hogs are in fact native to most of South East Asia and are well established here in Fl. In fact if you want to get creative like the researchers have when they lump Indian pythons together with burms to pad their estimates of range expansion I can think of another predator (being creative like they are of course.).
Wolves are well established in a fairly large portion of India and Domestic dogs were domesticated from Eurasian wolves so (in that creative sense of course) you could argue that feral dogs are a natural predator on burms since Indian wolves quite likely prey on baby indian pythons. perhaps that is far fetched but no less far fetched than thinking burms could expand as far north as Maryland.
Is there any evidence to suggest that they have expanded their range northward in S.E. Asia btw?
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RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - Calparsoni, Sat Sep 25 06:16:01 2010