“Vacation Turned Nightmare: Florida Man Discovers Unwelcome 16-Foot Predator Lurking in His Home!”
And while conservationists don’t have a definitive answer, there are two likely possibilities.
And while conservationists don’t have a definitive answer, there are two likely possibilities.
According to WION, it’s illegal to release non-native species into the wild in Florida.
But while the damage the Burmese python has been doing to the Everglades is an unfortunate demonstration of why that law exists, it’s possible that somebody decided to break it anyway.
Another possibility is that some residents in the area have kept Burmese pythons as exotic pets.
As such, it’s not impossible that some of those pets escaped their confines and weren’t intentionally released.
Although not all of a Burmese python’s hatchlings are likely to survive to adulthood, Bergeron said that at least a third of them will.
2019 saw conservationists like him capture their 500th python, and netting the 16-foot menace under the campers’ house is an important step in the arduous process of slowing the snake’s spread.
On his website, Bergeron said, “The Burmese Python poses a significant threat to the Florida Everglades by disrupting the natural food chain.”
He continued, “With good fortune, we were able to find a large female and remove her and an entire nest of up to 50 baby snakes which would have continued
killing off our precious habitat.”