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I was playing on this website the other day and found it listed a wild breeding population of Boas in South FL. Heck why do i keep going out of the Country to go herping when all I have to do is drive a couple of hours.
You guys have to check out this list, we got everything here in South FL, From Blue and Gold Macaws to Boas and Pythons to more Lizards then you can shake a stick at, oh and Monkeys too LOL.
Now before you all jump down my throat for the enviroment causes, I did not realse these animals, I just want to go find some of them LOL.
It should make for some cool pictures, this year alone they have removed 68 Burmese Pythons from the Everglades National Park, six in one day!!!!!
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Notes of accounts of Boas found in Florida..

An established population was first reported by Dalrymple (1994) and then by Butterfield et al. (1997) at the Charles Deering Estate at Cutler, southern Dade County. Boas have been found here an in the vicinity since the 1970s (T. Hardwick, Pesky Critters, Miami, personal communication). Over 40 boas, including gravid females and neonates, have been removed from the Deering Estate since the 1990s (J. A. Wasilewski, Natural Selections, Homestead, personal communication; A. Warren-Bradley, Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation Department, personal communication).

I saw this mentioned elsewhere too.. apparently on some estate there was a population of the living naturally..
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i live in dade county and a short distance from collier county .. so i guess that im in the middle of a blow out of a boa and burmese python population outburst !!! lol .. it seems cool for a moment but if we think of the harm it can do to the enviroment in the long run, it doesnt seem too cool anymore .. but hey .. stuff like this has been happening for millions of years if u think about it .. but not so fast like its happening now .
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I know exactly where they are, have actually even seen some but its private property and they dont let ANYONE in. I have also seen 2 DOR boas on the road, one hathcling with umbilical and everything, and one 4 footer. I have seen 2 caught under someones house that a rescuer had, that were both 10ft plus and gave birth to a huge amount of babies. But they are integrades, they have peruvian influences in them. They dont look like normal colombians.
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we can all get together,Hoppy is the law,So he can be the leader,An we will go save florida's natural wildlife from the Boa's!An give them all a new home!,lol!One interesting thing though?This private property that they are on,does the guy not care?Very interesting subject,would definatley like to hear more!Thanks for the post Hoppy!Thanks Eric[Hypoboa]

The first boa I ever met, was cought in a park in dade county. The girl who owned the boa got it from a friend that worked in one of the parks down there.

On Burmese pythons in the Everglades:

"and 2 "fights" between pythons and American alligators have been documented"

im from miami and its no so unusual to find some big snakes not just in the everglades . a friend of mine and i once found a male ball python hanging from a tree in front of his house. most likely an escapey . also in the homestead area 2 extremely big retics were found in a construction site. supposively one escaped and they caught the other one. rumor was they were over 15 feet . time will only tell what the outcome will be by letting these snakes out in the wild where they dont belong.

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