“Vacation Turned Nightmare: Florida Man Discovers Unwelcome 16-Foot Predator Lurking in His Home!”
Already in progress
And indeed, at least a couple of them were already in the process of hatching by the time Bergeron arrived.
The snake in this one was ready to enter the world by the time it was pulled from the egg.
Not unusual numbers
As Bergeron told NBC6, it’s not unusual for a Burmese python to lay between 50 and 80 eggs a year.
With that in mind, it’s not hard to see how the Everglades ended up with 100,000 specimens of the invasive species.
An uphill battle
An apex predator that multiplies so quickly is already a nightmare for conservationists.
But the Burmese python makes the grueling work of controlling its populations even harder with how effectively its camouflage lets it blend into the Everglades.
Getting worse all the time
Bergeron told NBC6 that he caught a python at his ranch about a month before this incident.
To him, that’s concerning because it’s a sign that the pythons are migrating north from their usual haunts in the southern part of the central Everglades.
How did this happen?
Since Burmese pythons aren’t native to the area and thrived to such an alarming extent when introduced to it, it’s hard not to wonder how they got there in the first place.
