A program to eradicate pythons from the Florida Everglades is beginning.
Friday is the first day herpetology experts with a permit will be allowed to search for and euthanize the pythons, which are not native to the Everglades.
The number of pythons in South Florida has exploded over the past decade as pet owners released their snakes when they grew too large, reports CBS station WFOR in Miami. It's unclear how many pythons are prowling in the wild across South Florida, but state wildlife officials estimate there are at least tens of thousands.
They reproduce 50 to 100 eggs when they lay the eggs. They have the ability to withstand different temperatures so there's a possibility they could move north. So now is the time to get started on this and try to prevent it before it becomes even a bigger problem," explained Behnke.
The first phase of the python hunting program will last about three months.
There is nothing more vicious than a wild Python. These snakes don't eat often but when they do your dogs and cat and small children are no match for these constrictors. I personally am not a snake fan as a matter of fact I am scared of them, to the point that I would hurt myself trying to run from one of them. Although let me say this the one thing that would make me face any snake would be the danger that one would present to my family. I know then that it would be an option of killed or be killed.
Snakes offer so much of a benefit by getting rid of rodents but these kind of killers don't need to be loose in the United States. The aggression level will eventually come back and when it does these snakes become death machines!
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