Monday, January 30, 2012

Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals

In this November 14, 2009 photo provided by the University of Florida, University of Florida researchers hold a 162-pound Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park, Fla. Therese Walters, left, Alex Wolf and Michael R. Rochford, right, are holding the 15-foot snake shortly after the python ate a six-foot American alligator. The National Academy of Science report released Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, indicates that the proliferation of pythons coincides with a sharp decrease of mammals in the park. (AP Photo/ University of Florida, Michael R. Rochford) A burgeoning population of huge pythons â€" many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big â€" appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.


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