{"id":27688,"date":"2016-12-09T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=27688"},"modified":"2016-12-09T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:40:59","slug":"burmese-python-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2016\/12\/09\/burmese-python-everglades\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese Pythons Are Destroying the Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BurmesePython.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Burmese Python\" title=\"Burmese Python\" class=\"left\" \/><em>The Burmese python is a massive snake native to Southeast Asia that arrived in South Florida in the 1980s, possibly released into the wild by careless pet owners. There are now as many as 300,000 of these invasive creatures slithering through the state, and they&#8217;ve been known to eat alligators, bobcats, rabbits, and birds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now scientists have discovered that Burmese pythons \u2014 which can reach 18 feet in length and swallow a bobcat whole \u2014 are even more ravenous than they realized. In a new paper in <strong>Bioinvasions Records<\/strong>, a team of researchers describe slitting open the intestine of a dead 14-foot python and finding the remains of three different white-tailed deer. The snake appears to have gobbled them up, an adult and two fawns, in just 90 days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The implications are disturbing. &#8220;If this was just one snake that ate three deer in isolation, that&#8217;d be one thing&#8221; says Scott Boback, a biologist at Dickinson College and lead author of the study. But the incident comes alongside growing evidence that the Burmese pythons are ravaging native wildlife in South Florida&#8217;s Everglades. &#8220;When you put that all together, you&#8217;ve got to say, okay, something serious is going on here.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Brad Plumer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2016\/12\/2\/13799734\/burmese-pythons-florida-everglades\">This 14-Foot Python Was Caught With 3 Deer in Its Gut. That&#8217;s a Bad Sign.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"copyright\">Image cropped from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/burmese-python-snake-tree-coiled-1569317\/\">Burmese Python<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/users\/skeeze-272447\/\">Skeeze<\/a>. It is in the public domain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burmese python is a massive snake native to Southeast Asia that arrived in South Florida in the 1980s, possibly released into the wild by careless pet owners. 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