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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• SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - Ravenspirit, Fri Sep 24 01:12:42 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - jscrick, Fri Sep 24 03:53:37 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - brhaco, Fri Sep 24 07:43:04 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - cychluraguy, Fri Sep 24 08:40:13 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - Calparsoni, Sat Sep 25 06:16:01 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Sat Sep 25 17:48:46 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - natsamjosh, Fri Sep 24 13:58:31 2010
• RE: SREL STUDY : No pythons yet - jscrick, Fri Sep 24 16:03:09 2010
• on second thought... - jscrick, Fri Sep 24 16:06:07 2010
• Wheres PETA? - stuart, Fri Sep 24 18:38:15 2010
• RE: Wheres PETA? - curaniel, Sun Sep 26 13:11:51 2010