" It's been documented that the original population was released by people in the pet trade, who wanted to breed monitors in the wild and then capture the babies for sale. "

This has not been confirmed. It has been mentioned and is one theory. Another theory was the hurricanes that went through could of led to the escape. The real funny thing is that was dismissed. The head biologist working to rid florida of them claims they got loose in 1990. So of course it couldnt of been the massive 1992 hurricane andrew that less them loose. Because he is certain it was no later then 1990? hahaha Dang he is good he can't even be off by two years wow. However this same biologist claims a single “clutch” of 84 eggs has been recorded and females become mature at 4-5 years of age.hahaha

So I wonder how close his estimate of 1,000 niles is?

Another non native species is here because of a spill at the airport. The monk parakeets came in and the box was dropped leaving them to escape.

There are some caimens loose near the airport too which were let go by workers of the airport who felt sorry for them, they thought letting them go in the pond was the right thing to do.

Maybe he will be nice and rid florida of fire ants next, or land snails, or brown anoles, brown basalisks, knight anoles, black pacu, oscars, holly trees, mellaluca trees, and all of the others things that are not supposed to be here.

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