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If you are tired of the media hype and want to know what is really going on in the everglades with the Burmese pythons then don't miss "Python Hnters" on Nat Geo Wild Monday nights at 10:00 pm in July!
PREVIEW of Python Hunters

Thanks Greg,

I am so excited about the show.

I hope you're having a great season.
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

Greg
I'm looking forward to watching the show. How many episodes will there be? Are you guys still hunting this year? If so I'm just curious if you're finding many if it it looks like most of them were killed off in that cold snap last winter.
Matt Ozsvath
Lizards of Oz
www.lizardsofoz.com

There will be 3 episodes.

Yes we are still hunting but we believe that the cold took out about 75-85% of the wild population.

Greg

I hate to say it, but someone should start hunting the wild population for meat. Free food.

I wish I had animal planet.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I heard they might be high in mercury. I have no idea if that is true, but I heard the gov't was discouraging them as food for that reason.

Ahhh, see I didn't know that.
Can't be much higher than fish though, so you make it 1-2 meals a month.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

Actually the fish in much of the glades is so high in Mercury that you can't eat them at all. I'm sure the same applies to the pythons.
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

Breeder of:
Green Tree Pythons
Jungle Carpet Pythons
Pastel, Pinstripe, FIRE, Piebald, Clown, Lavender Albino, Leucistic, and Spider Ball Pythons
Striped Colombian Boa Constrictors
Kenyan, Rufescens, and Conicus Sand Boas
Red Phase Western Hognose Snakes
Spider Western Hognose Snakes
Albino Western Hognose Snakes
Locality Trans-Pecos Mexican Hognose Snakes
Southern Hognose Snakes
Eastern Hognose Snakes
Tricolor Hognose Snakes
Hypo Checkered Garter Snakes
Eastern Blackneck Garter Snakes
Stillwater Hypo Bullsnakes
Patternless Bullsnakes
S. GA Eastern Kingsnakes
Locality Desert Kingsnakes
Albino Desert Kingsnakes
Hypo Desert Kingsnakes
Mexican Black Kingsnakes
Desert Phase, Striped Desert, Newport, and Coastal California Kingsnakes
Locality Mexican Milksnakes
Spotted Mexican Milksnakes
Tangerine Mexican Milksnakes
Locality Alterna
Abbott Okeetee Cornsnakes
Mexican Baird's Ratsnakes
Cape Housesnakes
Tangerine Albino African Fat -Tailed Geckos
Locality Spotted Turtles

Ditto to this. I've actually heard there is some controversy over how the animals would be destroyed if many were captured/killed because the mercury levels are so high. It sounds like they might just toss them in a high heat incinerator. Anyone heard different?
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

if they are high in mercury the animals of the glades must be eating something high in mercury and the body stores it...the more they eat the higher concentration....like little fish small amount, bigger fish more and large tuna alot more then...bnigger holds more and eats more....so what do wil pythons eat?...cats???rats,gators....we eat gators and cats might be the key?..is cat food high in mercury?...could be...not with all the hippy hugging cat and bob barker lovers out there...betty white would freak if kitty ate mercury....

must be smoke rectally.....

.......fry them....?....

....I would....

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...one of the CraZieS...?...

........JY.......

glades actually high in merc?...

wonder why?.....hmmm........you'd think the glades would be fairly clean......

I guess it all ends IN the glades....and is absorbed in....

into everything....

.....guess I gotta raise my own burms....

....LOL
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...one of the CraZieS...?...

........JY.......

Great job Greg! What can we all do to get you guys more air time? 3 episodes is good but a whole season of shows would be better!
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Best regards,
Alan Cole

Nice to see some real facts on the issue.
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Vince Pramuk []__[]

This looks great, unfortunately I work evenings and won't be able to see it. Will it be online somewhere like hulu? Of will DVD's eventually be available?

Sounds good Greg. I will make sure to spread the word.
We cant say enough how important this series is to the Herp world. Thank you for your time and dedication.
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Chris Berrios
~S.Fl Constrictors~

This looks great! it is time to see some real facts on a show on the pythons in the Everglades!.
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Neutiquam erro. Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.

Good stuff guys. A dose of reality about Burms is very refreshing.

Thanks
Brent
BRB Reptiles