On a related note,meet Amy Siewe,Florida's Python Huntress.Siewe is on a mission to rid her state of invasive Burmese pythons...here are a few shots from her website.
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Well the "Python Huntress" obviously has other motives here. Now that the Python's have a foothold here they will NEVER be eradicated. Not going to happen.
There's another show on right now, starring many of the "old favourites" from the Swamp People gator-hunting series, in which they are turning their attentions to catching Burmese Pythons in Florida. Each time they snag one, it goes into a bag...live...and the down-home good-ol'-boy voice-over narration mentions how many dollars each individual snake is worth to them.
To protect the tender sensibilities of a 2023 audience, nothing is actually explained about the eventual fate of these snakes. I'm sure many people in the audience can be excused for assuming that the reptiles are being re-located to a serpentine Shangri-La where they will live out their lives in peace and relaxation.
I'd bet folding money that the real reason they are kept alive...if indeed they really are...is just to keep the skins fresh and unspoiled in the Florida heat, at least until they get to the skinning shed.
It's a lot like a show that was running for awhile depicting some group of eco-warriors who were bravely capturing live wild pigs, carefully binding them up and laying them in the back of the ATV for eventual transfer to their new home.
Yeah, right...that's what they were doing with 'em...sure...
To protect the tender sensibilities of a 2023 audience, nothing is actually explained about the eventual fate of these snakes. I'm sure many people in the audience can be excused for assuming that the reptiles are being re-located to a serpentine Shangri-La where they will live out their lives in peace and relaxation.
I'd bet folding money that the real reason they are kept alive...if indeed they really are...is just to keep the skins fresh and unspoiled in the Florida heat, at least until they get to the skinning shed.
It's a lot like a show that was running for awhile depicting some group of eco-warriors who were bravely capturing live wild pigs, carefully binding them up and laying them in the back of the ATV for eventual transfer to their new home.
Yeah, right...that's what they were doing with 'em...sure...
.....if nothing else the pythons seem like they should be an almost inexhaustible source of meat for various zoos and whatnot.I'd imagine there are quite a few people hunting them for various uses.
Yeah good save...if the photo is to be believed the poor gator was in pretty rough shape when it was found.
That is a sad sight, hopefully it'll fully recover once the plug has been removed.
Sadly, wild animals ingesting "foreign" objects and suffering because of it is certainly not new.
