The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

Could have been , it could have been , it could have been it . See that I'm safe in Florida kayaking . We went on a um a tour of the crocodile habitat with my kids when they were the the youngest were like , but they're probably like six and eight somewhere around then .

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

So , why are they killing these things ? I mean , they're in Florida and they're , so , now you realize he killed the wrong one or something like that . 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 .

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

Wow , hundreds and now those hundreds are half a million , there's a half a million Pythons , they estimate . 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 .