The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

So because Burmese Python invasion of South Florida Ever Everglades populations of raccoons and opossums dropped roughly 99% and some species of rabbits and foxes effectively disappeared . Species that had long flourished here are being decimated by the aggressive newcomers . Wow , that's amazing .

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

I think it was 18 or 19 ft and they think they , they get bigger like they don't even know how big they ultimately get . This is not their environment , right ? Did you see this video ?

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

It is a free for all . You know what else they've spotted in the Everglades . They spotted Nile crocodiles .

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

I thought that was the whole problem . Another part of the problem was that there was a wildlife research facility where they were studying pythons and somehow or another , it got destroyed in a storm and the Pythons got out . Was that so , yeah .

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

I think they don't know exactly what you know , which percentage comes from the uh the pets from the 19 seventies and shit . People that go thousands of specimens of exotic species escaped their cages and enclosures during the passing the storm through the South Dade County State environmental inspection reporting reported 10 days after the hurricane . Witnesses spotted hundreds of large snakes and non venomous snakes loose .