Nelson Calls For Python Hunt In Fla

[coura]

Finaly someone posted thouse pics No predator teory fails

 

[Jeox]

You said it But we must not forget pythons have been around for a long long time, in their natural habitat they figth danger every single day (and yes in the florida everglades in the oposite of what has been said they do have predators, from gators to birds of prey and from snapping turtles to racoons all of wich can take young pythons, and some like gators even full grown ones) and they make it, they have a increadble capacity to stay unseen, in my opinion there wont be a "mass killing" there will be some probably few dumer ones killed. This politician wants basicly to make campaing against thouse "monsters" to be the "hero wich destroyed those people eating beasts" and self promocion at the snake´s cost, nothing more, the snake its a way to make itself noticed. And I dont beleave that there is such number of snakes in the everglades, its a natural evoirement like anyother, the snake its filling a practicly empty nich same it ocupys in its natural india, can only provide for a certain number of snakes

Agreed.
I don't get why the python killing the little kid started this though. Thats like a pitbull killing someone, and the police go out wolf hunting.
I don't think wild pythons are that big a danger to children. Its not like the everglades were a good place to let your kids run around in unsupervised until the pythons came around.

 

[Jeox]

I'd also bet on gator snappers eating them too. No matter how big those burms get, they can't really kill a decent sized snapper. Let alone the massive adults.

 

[corey24]

Considering the monster gators you see at the glades my theory was that though pythons do eat gators in long run its gators who eat pythons and get bigger and fatter due to it.

However in 2 of those pics its hard to say if the smaller python might not actually be able to kill the gator.

yea i ment like hatchling gators under 1.5ft pythons eat them like candy.theres no way the python in the 2 pics could take down those gators.

 

[Louie]

yea i ment like hatchling gators under 1.5ft pythons eat them like candy.theres no way the python in the 2 pics could take down those gators.

What I meant was that though the gators in those pics are bigger than those pythons . Could the python still kill it ?

Not eat it but simply kill it by constriction around its neck.

ex- 8 ft gator attacks 8 ft python as it swims through the water. 8 ft python cant eat 8 ft gator but perhaps it could still kill it.

Some of those pics look like the python could possibly still kill the gator. Fight could go either way.

Pic #4 was the outcome I thought would happen 9 out of 10 times but now not sure.

 

[corey24]

o i see idk gators have some prtty tough skin

 

[Toby_H]

What I meant was that though the gators in those pics are bigger than those pythons . Could the python still kill it ?

Not eat it but simply kill it by constriction around its neck.

ex- 8 ft gator attacks 8 ft python as it swims through the water. 8 ft python cant eat 8 ft gator but perhaps it could still kill it.

Some of those pics look like the python could possibly still kill the gator. Fight could go either way.

Pic #4 was the outcome I thought would happen 9 out of 10 times but now not sure.

I would say it all depends on how the snake grabs the gator and how the gator grabs the snake... luck of the draw who gets the quicker kill grab... although it's very possible they could both die due to the skirmish...

 

[coura]

I'd also bet on gator snappers eating them too. No matter how big those burms get, they can't really kill a decent sized snapper. Let alone the massive adults.

True. A big snapper probably wont kill a full grown python too big but it will cernatly leave a very nasty wound. Pythons cant kill snappers, completly diferent body form from what a python has evolved to kill.

 

[Louie]

I would say it all depends on how the snake grabs the gator and how the gator grabs the snake... luck of the draw who gets the quicker kill grab... although it's very possible they could both die due to the skirmish...

Yes imagine thats it . Could go either way if size is close enough

 

[Louie]

Agreed.
I don't get why the python killing the little kid started this though. Thats like a pitbull killing someone, and the police go out wolf hunting.
I don't think wild pythons are that big a danger to children. Its not like the everglades were a good place to let your kids run around in unsupervised until the pythons came around.

Though I posted this link in another forum will post it here because the big pythons "caught" are turning out to be bogus and staged not just this one but others also . This just happened to be biggest python .

Its just so easy to stage this .

http://www.theledger.com/article/20090813/NEWS/908139969/1410?Title=Trapper-Admits-Python-Hoax

There are pythons by glades but would be surprised if couple of hundred never mind thousands.
From what I saw on news since python hunt started few weeks ago think they have caught just a few .