The invasion of Burmese pythons in Florida Bashny.Net

Fashion keep as exotic pet Burmese python in Florida began in the late 90-ies of XX century. Small snakes were only about $ 20 per share, and therefore the demand for them was pretty big. Only from 1996 to 2006, Florida had imported about 100 thousand pythons.
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Burmese pythons are quite quickly from small snakes grew into huge snakes. At times their length is 6 meters, and weight - 100 kilograms. Of course, such individuals frightened hosts its size ... This led to the fact that the owners of the once small pitonchikov simply released into the wild grown snakes. Staff Commission for the Conservation of Nature do not know the exact number of pythons released into the wild in Florida, however, argue that this number is fairly large ...

Moreover, the climate of Florida, is characterized as humid and hot - it is an ideal habitat for pythons. Once alien species began to feel at home in the territory of Florida and began to multiply rapidly already in the wild ... Sometimes Burmese pythons in Florida delayed even 80 eggs at a time, even more than the amount that they lay at home in distant Burma ...



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