May 07, 2020
Volume 50 - No. 19
Another Record Python!
by lyle e davis
Back around 1980 some idiot, or maybe it was a group of idiots, (they run in packs, y'know) decided it would be an ever so lovely idea to release their pet snakes back into the wild . . a return to nature type of thing. Plus it was a lot less work and expense to not have to journey over to the local pet store and buy cute little bunny rabbits The Paper - 760.747.7119
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so the snakes would have proper feeding.
And so they released these pet snakes into the Everglades National Park in Florida. This idiotic exercise was not helped by Hurricane Andrew. At that time, a number of people kept pythons as 'luxury pets.' Thanks to the Hurricane, many of these snakes, it's estimated at least
1000, escaped into Florida's swamps.
What these idiots failed to recognize that, at least in some respects, snakes are a bit like humans. They like to, and have to, eat. They like to find a mate and, when it suits them, and after a proper nap, and if in the mood, they would breed. Breeding, it has been scientifically proven over the years, tends to generate proge-
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ny. In this case, baby snakes.
Baby Rosy Boas, Burmese Pythons, Yellow Anacondas, Ball Pythons . . . oh, there were a bunch of them. Eventually.
Y'see, pythons, once they mate . . . tend to get pregnant. These pregnancies can generate anywhere from six to as many as 100 eggs per season. Typically, snakes lay eggs