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

They don't know if it's a breeding pair . They don't know , you know , they just , they , they have spotted at least one Nile crocodile in the Everglades . Crocodile is a whole different , a whole different set .

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

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 .

The Burmese Python Invasion of Florida

I don't need to see that . I mean , the whole thing is weird that they allowed those as exotic pets and then these people just let them go in the swamp . Right .