Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Pythons and Anacondas: King of the Southern Everglades

We import more reptiles than any other country; in 2005 we imported 11,000,000. The problem is that many of those importing pythons and anacondas have problems keeping them on a permanent basis; after a period of time they release the snakes, many into the Everglades. So many pythons and anacondas have been released in the past few years that many of the common animals - rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats, etc. - are vanishing from the Southern Everglades.


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