Giant Pythons Have Overrun Florida. Here’s Why.

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Ever heard of the phrase "when pet pythons outgrow their owners"? Well, host Shane Campbell-Staton is about to take us on an adventure to find out what happens next in this episode of Human Footprint. Join Shane as he meets bounty hunter Donna Kalil, exotic animal trader Hillary Dupont, and biologists Matthew McCollister and Kristen Hart as they battle the invasive Burmese Pythons of the Everglades.
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@stephenshortnacy 10 месяцев назад

With 300,000+ pythons, they're going to need another 500+ Donnas.

@lorirarich1875 10 месяцев назад

THEy do need a good snake sniffing dog.

@apocalypse487 10 месяцев назад

I'm surprised the snake leather business isn't jumping in on this. I guess it's not as exotic.

@AifDaimon 10 месяцев назад

@@apocalypse487KILLING MY FAVOURITE ANIMAL TO MAKE LEATHER!?! SHUT UP

@martinwinther6013 10 месяцев назад

@@lorirarich1875 With a swimblatter

@working2bselfsufficient724 10 месяцев назад

They're here to stay, no way to get rid of them all. They're too good of survivors. Thankfully they can't go north or they die so cannot spread more than they already have.

@nancywallace4421 7 месяцев назад

This was a problem 20 years ago. There was a congressman who warned about these snakes but it fell on deaf ears. Too little , too late. What a shame.

@merlapittman5034 10 месяцев назад

I knew these pythons were having a seriously negative effect on Florida wildlife, but I didn't realize how big the impact was!

@Hayyyward 10 месяцев назад

The media loves to overdramatize it all for views. Notice the title of this video. "Florida overrun". Only a small portion of Florida even has Burmese. And look at how hard it was for them to even find one that had a transmitter. Hardly "overrun" with these animals. Also, stating 94% of the deer population is gone yet they still have deer hunting every year in those areas. And the hunters keep getting deer. Don't believe everything the media puts out for views. Sure there are Burmese in the Everglades but they're not everywhere like they are portrayed.

@pigimiceli 9 месяцев назад

for good reasons they are nowhere that bad. About 200 pythons were released at once during the hurricane. Giving the time frame, their reproductive and growth rate and the fact that adults really only eat once a month they cannot possibly be responsible for such a decline. If you want to find more responsible parties, look at video of FWC and other Florida agency spraying erbicide and pesticide right over birds and alligators. Then look at the increase of pollution in the Everglade. Finally notice how all of the higher ups of FWC are part of development companies or have ties to them. They want as much as the wildlife gone so they can build more resorts and villages for rich old fucks. The phytons are scapegoats.

@chris135x 9 месяцев назад

I guess you npc's need things like PBS to tell you what to say and think.

@godofthisshit 9 месяцев назад

@@chris135x What you think about the figures at 11:00?

@wtech758 6 месяцев назад

@@chris135xAll PBS did was state factual information and he was educated from the factual information so what’s the problem

@cbfarber5064 10 месяцев назад

Rangers have said that in the Everglades National Park there are no more raccoons, rabbits or other small mammals. Now the snakes are going for bird eggs. Pythons have also been found swimming in Florida Bay - they can swim and tolerate salt water. Add to this the threat of black and white tegus that primarily eat eggs. A breeder that was operating near ENP was cited for violations. When rechecked a couple of weeks later, the place was abandoned and all the cages opened and empty.

@iqbaalannaafi4944 10 месяцев назад

Oh wow, just how ravenous are those pythons?!

@douglasgriffiths3534 10 месяцев назад

Burmese can eat a lot, and very large meals. These snakes can get over 20 feet in length, and weigh upwards of 200 pounds. The climate in South Florida is very similar to where they came from---Southeast Asia. They are opportunistic and eager feeders---almost any warm blooded animal will do, as long as they can overpower it. They are not venomous, they kill by constriction. They've even killed alligators who were sunning themselves, so were warm. They have heat sensing pits on their muzzles. I have smaller and more timid ball pythons, who eat nothing more than small or medium sized rats, even though I do have a female that eats large sized ones. Mine eat once a week. (Jan Griffiths).@@iqbaalannaafi4944

@douglasgriffiths3534 10 месяцев назад

I also had an albino Burm that I bought as a hatchling. He was already 2 feet long. I bought him in 1992. By the time he was 9 months old, he was already slightly over 10 feet long, and nearly 90 pounds. He was getting too big for one person to handle alone, so he was donated to a zoo, where he lived till 28 years of age. His name was Sunny D. (Jan Griffiths).@@iqbaalannaafi4944

@leecowell8165 10 месяцев назад

Well they won't be swimming in that bay for very long as there's a lotta swimmers out there that are a lot bigger and a lot faster.

@nachomom-fk2bi 8 месяцев назад

I have recently been hearing local news reports stating that the pythons have decimated the wildlife in the Everglades so they are migrating northward to central FL. now. We also have a growing population of invasive exotic monitor lizards. Around 4 anaconda were found near Florida's east coast in the St John's River, 2-4 Nile crocs in the Miami area. It's hard to keep up with all of the exotic species that have been released or escaped into Florida's ecosystems. They all thrive well here. It's sad to see the native wildlife disappearing. The humans are still the most invasive and destructive species who caused all of this.

@13minutestomidnight 10 месяцев назад

It's terrible when irresponsible pet owners just dump their pets in the nearby environment, but it's ten times worse when it's a foreign species. The risk of invasive species impacting an ecosystem is always huge.

@Atite_Lometen 10 месяцев назад

Breeders are the ones to blame and the loose laws in owning exotic animals but you people are oximorons.

@Zenocius 10 месяцев назад

Just release some tigers out to eat the pythons

@WillTheBassPlayer 9 месяцев назад

@@Zenocius if I learned anything from the old lady that swallowed a fly, that isn't really a great idea

@NinjaRunningWild 9 месяцев назад

That's only part of the issue, & a small part at that. Apparently a breeding facility got destroyed during one hurricane & let loose a LOT of them. That's the bulk of where all these snakes have come from.

@jowho9992 9 месяцев назад

@@NinjaRunningWild Yes, a government run facility. Why would anyone put a breeding facility for these snakes in a state were they can thrive and a state that has terrible storms almost every year???? Notice they blame pet owners even though that's not where the bulk of the problem came from????

@heatherlee72 10 месяцев назад

Donna IS 100% correct.....'we'/humans brought 'em here, we NEED to try & eliminate them.

@andrewsebayjf 9 месяцев назад

Easy for her to say, she’s getting paid.

@artemesiagentileschini7348 3 месяца назад

Ironically why don't people treat stray/feral cats as such

@ArtsyJet Месяц назад

@@artemesiagentileschini7348Bias, we empathize more with cats than snakes, on average anyway. My apartment complex is completely overrun by feral cats some old cat lady apparently mass released 20 years ago (according to my Mom's coworker who used to live around here) and they bred and I guess, 20 years later it's just gotten insane. It's impossible not to see them outside and some have even broken into abandoned units around the complex, I hear their yowling in the evening. They're annoying af but there's almost a sense of humanity in their eyes. I remember seeing one on the patio through the glass window looking back up at me, almost seemed sentient. I could Imagine killing a snake but not a cat, they look too..."there". That's my guess.

@devinmartinez7705 15 дней назад

@@artemesiagentileschini7348cause cats are just babies.

@JumpsSoHard 4 дня назад

@@artemesiagentileschini7348 Why they gotta be feral? Outdoor cats as just as much of an issue? But if you shot one and called it a monster. You'd be called insane.

@patray162 10 месяцев назад

"And how old is the Prince of Darkness?" Lol I think I just found my new favorite program. Excellent episode, many thanks to all involved in the production.

@terrancenash5726 2 месяца назад

I loved the comment about bieng gangster for eating gators

@SapphireZeev36 10 месяцев назад

Amazing. The one time humans can’t make something go extinct

@houndgirl7365 10 месяцев назад

Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if people were secretly breeding them on Florida and releasing them to 'find' them as a bounty. Did you know India did this same bounty system to get rid of their cobras? Yeah they ended up with way more cobras then they started. For Florida I wouldn't be shocked if the gov continued this 'war' just for the publicity/gimmick of it. Overall the snakes are established sure some irresponsible people released pets, but the true foothold occurred after Katrina. Honestly it's a lost battle oh and the more people hunt them the more genetic pressure will be put on these animals to develope aspects to avoid/defend themselves from people. We are learning this from native rattlers as well. Overall it is what it is sure remove some to try to keep some checks and balances, but that ecosystem is screwed Florida did it to themselves still it doesn't mean all regions should legislate reptiles because Florida happens to have the perfect environment.

@TXNAT1VE 10 месяцев назад

Wild boars

@VishalJdhv 10 месяцев назад

Rabbits in Australia

@michaeln.2383 9 месяцев назад

I think they could if wanted to. For some reason, humans just don't have the will to take out the pythons like other species. They come up with excuses like they're always in water, they're difficult to find, and they don't come out until night. C'mon!

@jowho9992 9 месяцев назад

@@michaeln.2383 It was a GOVERNMENT run breeding facility destroyed by a hurricane that caused the bulk of this problem but they don't announce that. Why would government officials think to put a breeding facility in Florida where these animals can thrive if they escape???? Why in Florida where there are structure destroying storms almost every year????

@cbfarber5064 10 месяцев назад

Park ranger told me you can be standing next ti one in grass and not see it! She said they ( the ranger at Shark Valley ) had caught one that had a 70 lb deer inside of it

@pchaparala 9 месяцев назад

yikes 👀

@mik9napkin598 19 дней назад

I've heard you must say "YOINK" before grabbing snakes, legally.

@Leopoldshark 15 дней назад

And then ask the swamp puppies where the 20-footer is

@IanGrams 10 месяцев назад

I had no idea this was going on let alone the impact it has had on the native wildlife population. This was a super interesting look at the people dedicating their time to learn and try to solve this. Thanks to Shane and the rest of the team that made this possible!

@pigimiceli 9 месяцев назад

@1lasmith 10 месяцев назад

The women shown catching these snakes are badass fr 😭❤️

@nickhenson500 10 месяцев назад

I hate news stories that dont paint the full picture because its so misleading. Never forget the Burmese Python breeding facility that was wiped out by hurricane Andrew in the 90s and THATS where all of it truly started. Not just a bunch of random people releasing thousands of them by any means. There are a few that probably have, but the big event was the facility being taken out.

@AlanZablocki 10 месяцев назад

A knowledgable source said that "facility" in Homestead never existed, nobody can tell you what or where it was. That source, who will remain unnamed, said pet dealers imported Burmese pythons & released them intentionally, so they would not have to feed them. They could go out in the Everglades & capture them for sale. Their business plan backfired & massive ecological damage resulted. Evidence offered is that the Everglades are not overrun by anacondas & boa constrictors which pet owners have released as well, so individual pet owners are only a small part of the problem.

@johnnykruton1221 Месяц назад

More BS. Even up here in the Midwest these things are found set loose. These morons take in a “small” monster who then grows to the point they’re afraid that it’s going to kill them. That’s when they suddenly decide they’re animal lovers (never mind the innocent creatures they’ve fed to their monstrosities before then). So they just dump them out somewhere in the wild (or just the nearest green space) and feel like they’re ecological heroes giving these monsters a new lease on life.

@BillSikes. 20 дней назад

There is no definitive proof of that claim

@eric2500 10 дней назад

Does it matter? There is still a huge problem.

@eric2500 10 дней назад

@@AlanZablocki Does it matter? That's how I responded to @AlanZablocki. There is a huge problem with THIS species. Does it matter which invasive species beat out the others? Not really. But thank you for busting what sure smells like a conspiracy theory, secret breeding center, puh - lease! And yes basic greed and laziness in your source's example seems like classic short sighted human motivation, sadly much more likely.

@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods 10 месяцев назад

Shane Campbell-Staton, you are my hero! I have spent a lot of time working among academics, so I know the kind of posturing that goes on in that environment, and the fissure that can open up between scientists and the world around them. I have so much admiration for how you approach this journalistic role with down-to-earth humility and humor and curiosity. Thank you so much for choosing to do this important work, and for doing it so well. (Perhaps this is a delayed comment, because these thoughts were first inspired by previous episodes. "I learned to make cinnamon rolls from a RU-vid video once"... )😊

@LordDigz12 10 месяцев назад

Surprised there’s zero reference to the thousands of snakes that escaped during hurricane Andrew

@rayellebishop8168 10 месяцев назад

Yep, just as guilty.

@NinjaRunningWild 9 месяцев назад

@@rayellebishop8168Not just as. It's the bulk of the genesis of this problem.

@rayellebishop8168 9 месяцев назад

@@NinjaRunningWild I was referring to the above.

@eric2500 10 дней назад

this appears to be a local legend, more likely a cheap plan to release them for free food and catch the longer more saleable snakes later, which did not work.

@asianhobbitshaving3050 5 месяцев назад

I hate to say it, but, because of the Burmese Python 's adaptability, camouflage, and high birth rate, the battle has been lost. They are here to stay. In addition, the Florida Everglades have channels, or waterways, for the snakes to spread out. The snake catchers are basically fighting the ocean with a broom.

@floridaman6982 Месяц назад

They will run out of food. Wonder whos on the menu when that happens

@KylesMonitors 27 дней назад

@@floridaman6982 it's extremely rare that any snake sees a human as food and even more rare that one eats a human. You can count the documented cases on one hand. Pretty sure there's no record of a burm eating a human also, only reticulated pythons.

@seakr9838 10 месяцев назад

Amazing on at least two occasions we were told " the snake is there" but I still couldn't see them, no wonder they are such a problem.

@Sushi2735 3 месяца назад

Ditto, simply can’t spot a snake, any snake!

@cozymonk 10 месяцев назад

6:49 I need to offer a correction: No constrictor snake constricts in self defense... That would be completely disadvantageous for them as constricting just brings any predator close enough to them to use their claws and teeth. Snakes *only* constrict when they're in feeding mode. If they are defending themselves, their objective is to keep distance by first keeping perfectly still to remain unseen, running away if possible, mock striking to prevent injury to themselves, and then real striking when the threat is proven to be more serious, in that order. They won't have the neurological feeding response to start constricting if they're defending themselves. They need to have an expectation of food to constrict. Not only that, but most "giant" snakes are apex predators in their natural environments. This include Burmese and reticulated pythons. Because they are apex, they have minimal to no defense mechanisms once they reach adulthood. Reticulated and Burmese pythons can bite, but it is 99.99% of the time because they were in food-response mode and saw a warm hand and thought it was food, but the snakes are basically fearless and have no urge to fight something, because there's nothing that tries to kill them in their natural habitat. Burmese are especially docile and people call them "puppy dog snakes." They do bite in defense as babies, but they grow out of the behavior at size, if they're not traumatized. No adult human needs to be concerned about being attacked by a python. They don't see us as food and aren't scared of us. Children and pets, though...

@leecowell8165 10 месяцев назад

Looks to me that they ARE scared of us because they try to avoid detection. They'll also try to escape and will coil if we grab them by the heads because we of course sport something they've never seen before... opposable thumbs and two arms. Animals that they see all have 4 legs with the possible exception of raccoons. However raccoons ain't about to grab them behind the head like we're capable of. Yeah once we get them behind the head they're goners. And ESPECIALLY if we're somebody like Stan Brock. That guy was probably before your time but he took on full grown green Anacondas single handed.

@tenzinsmith7991 9 месяцев назад

@@FlippingCandyI wouldn’t say “many”, as it’s quite a rare phenomenon. And as far as I know, all were reticulated pythons and not Burmese.

@PointNemo9 7 месяцев назад

@@SimoneDesignsGamingOnly reticulated pythons in Indonesia can eat an adult human

@av1421 2 месяца назад

If they eat children, then they would already be in news in southeast asia, no?

@jeffrobinson4523 10 месяцев назад

I blame these pet store owners for selling these to anyone that walked in and wanted to buy one. Surely they knew these snakes would grow very large and many would end up being released into Floridas ecosystem. This is clearly a problem that has gone way beyond out of control. For every 500 they catch, im sure 500 are being hatched in a python nest somewhere. The pet/ reptile industry should stop selling these snakes, lizards , turtles , frogs to the public just for profit in their pockets . Its sad to see wildlife exploited like this and forced to create a ecosytem scenario in which the species breeds out of control.

@NinjaRunningWild 9 месяцев назад

They came from a breeding facility that was destroyed by hurricane Andrew, not individual pet owners.

@aintez2bstieby83 7 месяцев назад

@@NinjaRunningWild Its not just breeding facility, there is more too it. Please educate yourself!

@zzz-gu6ft 7 месяцев назад

@@aintez2bstieby83 Educate yourself first bozo, it absolutely IS the breeding facility. Pet owners released maybe 5% of them compared to the facility which had thousands of breeding-age individuals, all dumped at once

@nicolegoodew1547 10 месяцев назад

If the FWC payed more people to hunt pythons instead of twirling their thumbs when it comes to applications to be python hunters, these snakes would be easily removed from the glades in under 10 years. There is no excuse for FWC to act like its a problem when there is such an obvious solution. Not to mention they allowed land development in the only area that has a population of cougar in Florida, causing more interactions with these animals. And because FWC was working with those land developers, you'd think they would build homes away from waterways. Yet homes that were mentioned for the elderly are way too close to the waters edge. Gators have been attacking the elderly more in the past 2 years and its usually in places like this. FWC is hurting the everglades

@floridaman6982 Месяц назад

in 10 years they could run out of food. Wait till the pythons start hunting us

@nicolegoodew1547 Месяц назад

@@floridaman6982 pythons don't hunt humans. They can't fit your typical Florida resident/tourist unless you're a small child and even then, it would have to be much larger than the snakes you'd typically find. Its rare to find a snake large enough. Most snakes being found and removed are under 10 feet long. If people were continuously hunting these animals their sizes and population would be reduced, making it where there would be less and less snakes over 10 feet long, meaning there would be less and less of a chance of a small child being hunted by a python. In order for a snake to consume anything, its prey has to be smaller than the snake is thick. It would have to be over 15, if not up to 20 feet long. A 10 foot python simply lacks the size to consume a person

@user-fe1jh1yf4c 17 дней назад

You realize these snakes can have up to 50- 100 eggs in one clutch? If they manage to survive 2 years those that are females will in turn have up to 50-100 eggs this problem will only get worse. You’d literally need 24/7 hunters from coast to coast. Now imagine when Andrew came through. Now do the math. We’re talking 32 years. That’s 16 generations of snakes considering the snake becomes sexually reproductive at 12-36 months depending on physical constraints. Now imagine 50 females starting the spread at 50-100 eggs per clutch. Let’s just go with 50 for this discussion. 50 females having 50 eggs let’s say 30 survive to sexual maturity. Out of those 30 12 are female. That’s another round of 12 females having 50 eggs see where this is going? of course the numbers are fictitious. We don’t know the actual numbers but it is significant to the point it won’t be easy as you claim it will to eradicate them.

@Nefville 9 месяцев назад

This is an amazing production. Somehow YT didn't recommend it to me until now. I've always supported PBS even when they were only on local access TV and I'm glad to see you guys taking over the internet, especially with such good videos.

@hippiesmurfungi7560 10 месяцев назад

Actually Burmese pythons and a lot of other reptiles including tegus iguanas chameleons basilisk and countless other little reptiles got released from a breeding facility years ago when a hurricane past through Florida years ago yes there are some irresponsible unknowledgeable reptile keepers that release their pets when they can't handle them Florida's biggest reptile problem is it from pet keepers it's from a hurricane

@michaeln.2383 9 месяцев назад

The news media passes the blame to pet owners. No one wants to blame the ignorance of having a breeding facility right where a hurricane would strike. They knew the storm was coming. They could have moved the snakes if they really wanted to.

@shirish.pokharel 9 месяцев назад

@@michaeln.2383are these the same humans?

@michaeln.2383 9 месяцев назад

@@shirish.pokharel Humans make a mess and don't want to clean up their mess. A reasonable person would conclude that it's the same humans.

@seveglider8406 9 месяцев назад

Yes, some invasive species entered Florida's environment because of a hurricane. However, the overwhelming majority of them were dumped by irresponsible pet owners. The lesson we should learn is this. Leave Wild Animals in the Wild. They're not pets!

@michaeln.2383 9 месяцев назад

@@seveglider8406 They started showing up in '79 and the theory is that for every one that you see, there are 100 that you don't see.

@AlbertaGeek 10 месяцев назад

With regards to tracking them through such terrain, I should think a properly trained athletic breed of dog would be a valuable asset to the team.

@fernandoavila3929 10 месяцев назад

Until the dog gets eaten too.

@AlbertaGeek 10 месяцев назад

@@fernandoavila3929 Yes, because the people using the dog will just stand there and watch if the dog is attacked. Dumbass.

@jaungiga 10 месяцев назад

There's a python hunter here on RU-vid doing exactly that. The channel is called Python Cowboy

@germanshepherd2579 10 месяцев назад

@@jaungiga exactly I watch alot... There should be hundreds of dogs trained with a proper owner doing that

@-xXsupremacyXx- 10 месяцев назад

Bomb the Everglades and be done with it lol, or poison these invasive species.

@ironteacup2569 10 месяцев назад

Florida sounds like an animal finder’s paradise

@tenzinsmith7991 9 месяцев назад

It would be if assholes at FWC actually let us keep the animals we removed from the environment.

@lolz6449 10 месяцев назад

There is a reason its totally legal to catch and kill them on sight in Florida. So long as its done humanely by the guidelines put out by the state of Florida its literally open season. There are python challenges every year. Theres one going on right now. Cash prizes.

@Hayyyward 10 месяцев назад

Not in the Everglades. You have to be licensed.

@jamesberonja1539 5 месяцев назад

Horrible creatures. Glad I'm in WISCONSIN.

@98Zai 3 месяца назад

That's like the most human thing I can think of. Wreck eco-system by accident, turn it into a murder competition.

@raphlvlogs271 10 месяцев назад

pythons will feed on a lot of other species since they are generalists and opportunists but they still fall prey to various predators such as birds of prey bears and crocodiles especially when they are young

@walkingwolf8072 10 месяцев назад

And feral dogs, a pack of dogs can make easy work of a large python, also eating their offspring.

@survivrs 9 месяцев назад

In the '90's, there were a couple of hurricanes that came through Florida, hitting at least one reptile facility (maybe more than one) allowing both Burmese Pythons and other invasive species such as Iguanas turning them loose. It would have been great if it was a sub zero temperature for a month after the hurricane because that would probably killed most if not all of them, but as we know, there is no such thing as a sub zero climate in Florida, they are literally a hotbed for the pythons. Unfortunately they have destroyed a lot of flora and fauna of the everglades and continue to move farther north, eating the wildlife that belongs there. There are people who make their income by catching these snakes, getting bounties by the weight and length of the snakes, they sell the meat, and then the skin to make boots or belts, who knows how many things. I got into the show with Dusty and his cohorts capturing pythons left and right, including babies. and when I wasn't seeing the show returning, I learned of Dusty nearly losing his leg in a bad accident. Along came Swamp People, 2 separate shows, one for Gators, and one for Pythons. They aren't quite what I'd gotten used to, but they are on the History channel and I love watching them chase them down, grab them, and bag them to get their bounty.

@Houligans 10 месяцев назад

Pretty much the only reason why I like a long winter season right there.

@redbloodedbutterfly 7 месяцев назад

Agreed. I live where it gets -10F in winter and we still have invasive species. It'd be so much worse if it didn't get so cold.

@Eryalb 2 месяца назад

The pythons seek gopher tortoise burrows and other burrows during the cold which makes it even more of a challenge

@mattrohde7294 10 месяцев назад

All of the deer, rabbits and raccoons have moved to the huge gated neighborhoods that are popping up everywhere. Deforestation to build these massive gated communities has more of a impact than any python. All the apex predators in Florida are doing well. And the last 15 years Coyotes have moved in.

@danieldowney2678 8 месяцев назад

they wont last they are all easy kills for pythons

@dugfriendly 10 месяцев назад

These are some badasses doing some bizarre work ❤

@larrywelling1731 10 месяцев назад

You all should know that hurricane Andrew destroyed an exotic animal holding facility in 1992. That's where alot of the lizards and snakes came from

@MultiDivebomber 10 месяцев назад

Slithering out and still lurking out there...😱

@nachomom-fk2bi 8 месяцев назад

Andrew also released many exotic critters from the Miami zoo.

@thangri-la 5 месяцев назад

Yes. But that was only a one time event while private pet keepers have been releasing their pets to the environment for as long as the existence of the hobby - before and after a natural disaster

@larrywelling1731 5 месяцев назад

@@thangri-la do you have any idea how many eggs a big python can have

@av1421 2 месяца назад

Jurrasic Park

@walkingwolf8072 10 месяцев назад

I lived in the Keys, the everglades has always had an invasive species that kill more than pythons. That species is the feral cat, and also feral dogs, both eat daily, large pythons eat once a month, and not at all during breeding season. If anything the pythons are decreasing the feral dog, and cat population.

@1BCHRIS 10 месяцев назад

One of the better documentary I’ve seen on this topic

@KriusAerion 27 дней назад

What’s incredible about Burmese Pythons is how they are slowly becoming endangered in their native range, yet they are thriving on the other side of the planet in Florida swamps. Snakes are truly a hardy species.

@AniFam 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this video~👍

@anniehills3580 10 месяцев назад

Thank for info. I always worry about these snakes during flooding down there!!! Yikes, can you imagine, its storming and dark and you must go into water filled with snakes....pythons😮😮😢

@pagedouglas16 10 месяцев назад

Hopefully the new ecosystem will adapt to them and a "balance" will occur, sooner rather than later

@sammylacks4937 10 месяцев назад

What I wonder is , if pythons got loose , what other species slipped away in the storm. A few dozen Egyptian cobras , maybe some Ringoles that have the charming ability to just spit their special blend in ya face. At least with these immigrants you can call help or write a note explaining how you are dying. With the present population of new critters that may not be option. Get this picture, your riding on the Tamiami turnpike when a light cmes on saying your engine is running a fever. You stop at a convenient creek to feetch a pail of water but slip , tumbling down after the bucket , it and you coming to rest beside the still waters. Gathering your senses , reaching for the pail when suddenly a mouth attaches to your face blinding all your vision. You see only darkness but as your eyes become accustomed to the.sudden lack blackness , thin teeth and a a forked tongue become visible as you become aware of a sudden tightness wrapping you up. You wonder if it's a really bad dream but no. It's really big snake that has a grip on next meal and that is not the best news you've told yourself this day. All you can do at this point is . really to try n bend so you can kiss your bottom goodbye. Goodbye..

@puffingtonsmythe8690 9 месяцев назад

They have been getting loose because people who buy exotic pets like these from foreign countries don’t realise how big they can get. They can also cost a lot of money to feed and need constant attention and care. Pythons originate from Asia not the americas. Man has done this, not a flood.

@johnchestnut5340 9 месяцев назад

@@puffingtonsmythe8690No. Some hurricane damage released animals. Man released some. Nature replied, "Watch this."

@nachomom-fk2bi 8 месяцев назад

You name it, it's multiplying in wild Florida.

@nachomom-fk2bi 8 месяцев назад

@@puffingtonsmythe8690 Their pet rabbits they used for pet python food are multiplying like rabbits all over the urban sprawl as well.

@bdwon 10 месяцев назад

a perfect time to quit real estate, especially in Florida

@chrisdooley1184 10 месяцев назад

Agreed. The market here is complete shite 😂

@RosscoAW 10 месяцев назад

When even conservative insurance companies have realized the state will be entirely underwater and cease being able to amortize their insurance as a consequence of the basic accounting therein, that's when you know you're past the point of no return.

@chrisdooley1184 10 месяцев назад

@@RosscoAW so true. Even now the map of hurricane affected areas and flood zones keeps getting bigger and bigger and the acceptable risk zones zones get smaller and smaller thereby increasing insurance premiums to outrageous prices. We had friends in Ft Lauderdale who actually had to move only five years into their mortgage because insurance moved the flood zones from the inter-coastal waterways past their property thereby increasing their annual premiums to 115% their MORTGAGE PAYMENT!! Insanity down here but no one wants to live inland because of the Everglades lol

@roguesample 10 месяцев назад

Outside of what I’m assuming is ticket to a metric ton of bug bites - being a python hunter sounds kinda fun

@Indy_Pint 10 месяцев назад

It ain’t just Burmese Pythons out there in the Everglades.. they’ve found Reticulated Pythons, & Anacondas

@SapphireZeev36 10 месяцев назад

Are these species compatible? Python/anaconda sounds terrifying

@timhazeltine3256 10 месяцев назад

@@SapphireZeev36I think you meant can they interpreted. If that's your question the answer is yes they can.

@DAMfoxygrampa 2 месяца назад

Do you mean interbred? ^

@Specogecko 8 месяцев назад

The vast majority of pythons pretty much came from a breeding facility destroyed by a hurricane, with a small portion of them being released pets

@mtb4l673 6 месяцев назад

I remember having friends in the 90s, as a kid, who owned pythons as pets. It was all the idiot exotic pet stores that created this mess. Parents weren’t told that these snakes would grow rapidly and so they were all released into the Everglades once they got too big. Imagine over 2 decades of them reproducing at will. FL has now been overtaken by invasive species. From Python’s, to Tagu’s, to Asian snakeheads in the water. The state should have not ever allowed this SMH

@fiberpoet6250 8 месяцев назад

It wasn’t irresponsible pet owners. The biggest concentration of them are near where a reptile breeding facility on the edge of the Everglades was absolutely destroyed in a hurricane. The govt wanna blame pet owners but the scientists are saying the data shows they came from a single point and have spread out from there. That point is where the breeding facility got destroyed. If it was pet owners, they would be all over Florida and other places too, but that’s not the pattern. It’s all one location and they spread from there. The reason the Florida govt doesn’t wanna admit it’s a facility is it’s a corporation and in America, corporations come before ppl. So it’s an easier scapegoat to blame pet owners in Florida. Tho all the Gulf coast has sub tropical swampy conditions and python owners live there too.. why only in Florida Everglades is this an issue?? Cuz it was the breeding facility that got destroyed and they all got loose.

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 9 месяцев назад

GREAT video! Loved it!

@yodhin79 8 месяцев назад

For everyone they catch, this miss one that has 50 babies. Insane.

@ninatrabona4629 10 месяцев назад

Raw meat is a good bait for fly traps. If humans can't or won't eat them, that might be a use for the flesh of the killed snakes.

@ninatrabona4629 10 месяцев назад

Also, if the meat is sold and sent elsewhere, it should be irradiated first so if there are parasite eggs or non-native bacteria,, etc from its native country the sale will not spread them further.

@HoneyBumblebee300 10 месяцев назад

Chinese eat snakes so there may be a market for these pythons there!

@Feverything2030 10 месяцев назад

The Simpsons did an episode on this already. Whacking Day 4/29/93

@pbsterra 10 месяцев назад

“Simpsons did it” also extends to science RU-vid channels I guess 😂

@unicorngj 5 месяцев назад

Most weren't released by owners. During 2005 several hurricanes swept through all of Florida . Not one area wasn't effected. We also was warned for several months to watch for non native reptiles. Reason was several animal shops were destroyed and the reptiles ended up free...

@apalala4166 4 месяца назад

Invasive species absolutely are mostly dumped pets. This doesn't only happen with pythons, it happened with goldfish, plecos, red eared sliders etc. This absolutely is the work of asshole people dumping their pets into the wild.

@UpNorthEnt. 8 месяцев назад

Bro these videos are so intriguing

@kuukeli 10 месяцев назад

thank you for the video

@JimmySaul888 Месяц назад

I grew up in South Florida. When I was about 10 in 1987, a friend of my mom's gave us a 6ft python. We thought it was cool at first. I remember feeding it rats and watching it kill its prey. Then the damn thing grew like another 6 feet in a year. It also got aggressive and started eyeing our dog and parrot. It snapped at me and my mom at times. It had to be constantly caged. Somehow, it escaped. Fast forward a year later, and about a mile from us, a news story came out about a loose 18 foot python eating all the neighborhood cats and dogs that was found living under someone's porch. I've always wondered if that was ours.

@Chris-op7yt 9 месяцев назад

i think the size of the largest patterns will give a good approximation of length. rather than having to measure length directly

@glenneric1 10 месяцев назад

Imagine being a drop center for 100 pets plus one python and coming in in the morning and there being one fat python. 😂

@alainbaatjies5943 10 месяцев назад

Are there no native predators in Florida such as Jaguar, wolves, bears or Cougars that can perhaps compete and kill the snakes? Jaguars and cougars both are viable competitors for burmese pythons as these animals live with anacondas and other boa constrictors further south.

@alistairmackintosh9412 10 месяцев назад

Nope. All the species you mentioned are either endangered or don't exist in Florida.

@majorsynthqed7374 10 месяцев назад

Jaguars haven't been in South Florida for over 600 years, black bears and the Florida panther are endangered in the state, bobcats and raptors can only take down small pythons. About the only critters that have a chance to take out a large python are alligators and the American crocodile. Bull sharks can do a number on one if caught in the water.

@gsoutside5741 9 месяцев назад

@majorsynthqed7374 giant otters can too.

@majorsynthqed7374 9 месяцев назад

@@gsoutside5741 There are no giant otters in South Florida. And they get eaten by anacondas, so I imagine a python can to if it got one alone.

@pchaparala 9 месяцев назад

they are eating alligator eggs otherwise alligators can eat them

@aluisious 10 месяцев назад

Pretty sure humans are Florida's biggest invasive species.

@mr.mrs.d.7015 10 месяцев назад

Yes, the snakes didnt do anything wrong either and now they die because we cant be trusted to care for anything

@bornfuct 10 месяцев назад

More like Florida man...

@tdgeeee 10 месяцев назад

very underrated comment

@RMSx3-hx3po 9 месяцев назад

Typical Leftist comment 😂

@alexcontreras6103 9 месяцев назад

yeap but people don't seem to understand that, humans are biggest invasive and most destructive

@stuartsmith8155 Месяц назад

Never ever going to get rid of them...NEVER. Florida is huge.

@marypaille2717 10 месяцев назад

Could the tagged pythons not be sterilized prior to release so they could be studied without reproducing?

@MindBlower18 8 месяцев назад

The Everglades are obviously flooded with Pythons 😱 To get rid of those snakes is like fighting against windmills...

@douglasdimwitty-zs9gx 27 дней назад

Such beautiful snakes. I've released several and I'm glad they're doing great 👍

@heatherstewart9300 23 дня назад

I don't live anywhere near Florida, way over here in Canada, lol. Had a Burmese Python many years back, got to 14 ft, named him "Cujo". Very sweet, as far as snakes go. :D Then also had a beautiful Rainbow Boa, named her "Asphyxia". Worked with a REALLY big, and extremely docile, Burmese Python at a zoo, that was used as Endangered Species Awareness for educational purposes back in '95-ish, named "Julius Squeezer". He was a HUGE hit with the kids.

@urseldoran2991 9 месяцев назад

A major factor not ever mentioned is the female's capacity to lay several dozen eggs. One female was cut open and had NINETY EGGS!!!

@crotalus2011 6 месяцев назад

In 1989 I went down to south Florida and visited several reptile importers. There was one in Tamiami right across from the Tamiami airport. They literally had hundreds of Burmese Pythons! This was in a self storage building. This was just before Hurricane Andrew and they were ground zero. National Geographic did an article about Andrew and the destruction of the Tamiami airport and I have no doubt that the importer was destroyed too. Sure some of the pythons may have been pets that were purposely released but I can't help think that the importer with hundreds of Burmese pythons being released in one place has much more to contribute to this problem than an occasional released pet.

@98Zai 3 месяца назад

If there was no demand, there would be no breeder. So even super committed, responsible pet owners are to blame.

@crotalus2011 3 месяца назад

@@98Zai you don't know what you are talking about. It's not the breeder or the keeper it was the importer that imported the wild pythons. Now there's so many breeders that there's no need to import. My point is there was a mass release by a natural disaster hurricane Andrew. Pet owners would never release in one area that they would be able to find each other. So I think pet releases had very little to do with this problem.

@98Zai 3 месяца назад

@@crotalus2011 We don't need to have a snake, it's an interest. So our interest made the importers/breeders spend money on snakes, with promise of return on investment. Let's not keep exotic animals in a climate where they can survive outside. Actually, why are we keeping exotic animals at all? To me they seem to be a biological weapon, many other countries don't allow this crap.

@98Zai 3 месяца назад

@@crotalus2011 For some reason my comment was removed despite me not using a single word that might trigger a filter. I'll try to rephrase what I said and hope for the best: The reason that importers and breeders spend money on snake is because they can get a return on investment, it's all down to the customer. In our economic system anything not regulated by law is regulated by the market. In other countries it's illegal to keep exotic pets when the climate allows them to survive in the wild. Invasive species are basically a biological weapon, I think it's kinda crazy that it's allowed today.

@johnwilliams8855 10 месяцев назад

If the game and fish idiots would have declared year round open season on them and hogs years ago, their wouldn't be near the problem there is now.

@jaymacpherson8167 11 дней назад

A friend of mine from back in the 1970s loved snakes. I liked handling the 8 foot long Burmese python, but the Reticulated python at 12 feet was a bit large…and when it reached 15 feet with an unfed girth of about 10 inches, I didn’t want it out of its cage when I visited. Then he moved on to vipers, asking if I (being a chemist) would help him separate the proteins in their venom. He couldn’t afford the equipment to do the separations. I hope he stayed safe as he wanted to obtain a Black Mamba.

@xzqzq 4 месяца назад

The problem with government paying people to kill snakes: folks start raising snakes in captivity for the reward. Happened in India with Cobras....

@jaysartori9032 10 месяцев назад

They should pass a law in Florida banning owning Pythons and any other exotic animal. Anyone who is caught owning one or caught smuggling one in should get up to five years in jail and a fine of $15,000. "If anyone sees a Pythons places call 911"!!

@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne 10 месяцев назад

Lmaoooo… that’s absolutely ridiculous. This problem was not created by a person dropping their pet off. It was sparked by Hurricane Andrew destroying a customs warehouse that was used for storing exotic animals.

@jaysartori9032 10 месяцев назад

No, this was do to people smuggling these animals into people. Because they think owning a snake is cool, but when they become too big for them to take care for? They dump them in a swamp instead of giving them to a zoo or an animal rescue! Those people a scum thanks to Florida are now being invaded by them "SCUM"!

@mckinleyostvig7135 10 месяцев назад

Pets being released is a tiny part of the problem. A hurricane destroying a massive research and breeding facility is the main problem.

@houndgirl7365 10 месяцев назад

HELL no! 1 this issue should be reviewed state by state on what could potentially have a threshold. For the most part the only state with these issues is FLORIDA. Stop trying to legislate this hobby when you likely know SQUAT about it. Keepers normally are incredibly responsible and for those who can't keep their animal for whatever reason custody is released to a reptile store who can rehome them or a rescue. If a snake is released normally they die ESPECIALLY in regions that are incredibly cold or the humidity isn't right leading to shedding issues! The subject is complex and there are equally destructive animals out there like dogs and cats, but nooo they get fur privledge. Florida has already shown they know nothing about pythons. Ball pythons, the child python, the black head African python, etc but not even the FWC would be able to identify those species let alone a boa (review the horror story of the 'Holy Thursday massacre' that had soooo many issues those snakes should have been adopted out of state or grandfathered in!! Not to mention the murdered gravid boa those officers knew what they were doing!!) Anyways ignorance and hate breeds just that so don't be ignorant especially when we as humans are WAY more destructive than any snake!

@leecowell8165 10 месяцев назад

Why do that? Just shoot them.

@wayne487msc 9 дней назад

Well, during a hurricane, around 1500 baby pythons escaped a holding facility. This is the number one most promising contribution to pythons in Florida.

@SansBalance 10 месяцев назад

These pythons came from South, Southeast Asia, right? What do the scientists there know about them? They are classified as vulnerable worldwide, but why are they unstoppable in Florida? What keeps their population in check in their native lands? I understand this series focus is the impact of humanity, but it's a bit frustrating that it doesn't bring us the science info that probably do exist.

@LENZ5369 10 месяцев назад

Big cats and other snakes but mostly it's humans (iirc mostly habitat destruction but also hunting). Short of making the invasive species problem worse or trashing the Everglades; not much is applicable...maybe someone can make snake leather cool.

@caitlinw8351 10 месяцев назад

i know this isn’t necessarily where you were going with this comment but i think its kind of funny that there’s been many cases of governments releasing an invasive species’ natural predators into the environment, only for the predator to also become an invasive species lol.

@SansBalance 10 месяцев назад

@@LENZ5369Interesting. But, humans have not been out of Africa until relatively recently. I wonder what constrained the python population before anthropogenic habitat destruction.

@LENZ5369 10 месяцев назад

@@SansBalance There's no reason to think that it would have be any different. Habitat destruction often hits the higher trophic levels (top predators) harder/first, so the numbers of big cats and higher level snakes would have dropped first; throwing things out of balance. Then there is the threat factor -big cats and the venomous snakes that prey on the Burmese; are also threats to humans and would have been targeted to some degree. Just a hypothesis but the Burmese's current population losses to human actions could have just (over)corrected for the losses that would have occured due to normal prehuman big cat and venomous snakes populations.

@infinitemonkey917 10 месяцев назад

@@SansBalance What does humans leaving Africa have to do with Burmese pythons ? Heard of a search engine ? Adult pythons in Asia are preyed on by leopards and tigers. A lot of things prey on the young.

@skybluskyblueify 10 месяцев назад

Mammals need to go to python avoidance school or Florida needs a mammal transplant of animals that are better able to live around them. Otherwise South Florida could become a mammal-free zone.

@jeffreycater5447 10 месяцев назад

Introducing another invasive species to a l environment so fragile is definitely not the answer

@aluisious 10 месяцев назад

@@jeffreycater5447 It's all going to be underwater in 20 years anyway.

@CAM-fq8lv 10 месяцев назад

Great presenter. Nice voice.

@dignityrevolution 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@hera7884 6 месяцев назад

Them: “Pythons are taking over the Everglades” Gators: are literally everywhere

@WriteInAaronBushnell 10 месяцев назад

I bet you could find these things with a drone with good thermal camera

@kcthonian 10 месяцев назад

With Thermal cameras? No. Snakes are "coldblooded" so they don't really show up like a mammal would. But there's promise with some Infrared cameras from what I've read. Those may be viable... but expensive, unfortunately.

@BG-fm5od 10 месяцев назад

The pet trade needs to be regulated. Bringing in exotic species as pets is horrific for the animals. Humans are the invasive species.

@jeyendraguhan1 9 месяцев назад

The link does not have a video

@Falconryful 10 месяцев назад

Wtf why blame storms or pet owners for the python invasion, I worked at a reptile distributor in the mid 1980s in Florida and when we received shipments from overseas we were ordered to throw the sick or injured out the back door into the wild, pythons to king cobras not to mention all the other reptile species scorpions too frogs.

@netanelhoppenstein6562 19 дней назад

this comment needs more views

@theplaguepadart3743 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if this is ever gonna get fixed. Like is it even possible to hunt them faster then they reproduce.

@x0cx102 3 месяца назад

Went to the everglades last december and saw a gator eating a python right off the road.

@XxSEETH3RxX 9 месяцев назад

Down here in South Florida Dustin Crum is the king of capturing them.

@MartinEngelbrecht-ey3rl 9 месяцев назад

Amazing they still have exotic pet shops.

@bigt2079 11 дней назад

At the end of the video, I could have sworn I heard the theme song for The Adam Friedland Show.

@Frida3728 10 месяцев назад

How prepared is the exotic pet store for a disaster to break the glass cages and release pythons?

@JoniMitchell-qi6hr 10 месяцев назад

The more they eat and the more space they have They will grow!😮

@Solarmaxi 15 дней назад

I know about one man who is still looking for that 20 footer.

@kevinsaviro2708 2 месяца назад

The craziest part is that in their home range in Southeast Asia these pythons are endangered. So it would be a good idea to catch them and release them in Southeast Asia.

@pierheadjump 7 месяцев назад

⚓️ Thanks PBS 🌈 I saw a video with dogs tracking pythons, it seemed to be pretty successful. 😎

@danieldowney2678 10 месяцев назад

Wow! what an impact, they killing everything. hope they come up with a solution before its too late

@danielcavazos-il7vs 9 месяцев назад

Impossible to solve by catching manually. The hunter rely on roads & boats. But pythons can be essentially in any place.

@ShynyMagikarp 10 месяцев назад

Can't say I don't love this series with Shane Campbell-Staton so far, but I also feel like the way this program is edited and the music makes it feel a little less... serious? Like it's not accurately reflecting the gravity of these issues, or more showing them for fun as opposed for education material. I don't know. I might be the only one who feels that way but the editing style feels off with the goal of the program.

@scottmarquardt3575 10 дней назад

I was homeless next to the Missouri River one very hot summer. I only had a problem with the dinosaur turtle, rattlesnake stayed out of town, but I think anything could be living in that water😮

@0-60reviews7 4 месяца назад

The camera woman really risked herself for that shot at 3:06

@Kaydeep94 2 месяца назад

If you do see something on the road , yell python? And wait for it to respond “yessssssssss”

@cliffwendy3765 19 дней назад

How can you possibly think you’re gonna catch all the pythons from the road? OMG they are deep into the deepest part of the Everglades

@jewellcleveland2226 10 месяцев назад

Respect for these Burmese Python hunters 🫡

@MickPosch 10 месяцев назад

It's amazing that our wildlife is being wiped out by a fifteen foot long animal, and we can't find them.

@gyrospinup 6 месяцев назад

Pythons have been dumped in the swamps since the 50s. The Florida conservation dept allowing the hunting of large gators helped the snakes multiply.

@haydenhudson2342 23 дня назад

guys dont worry, the yoink guy's gonna get the the 20 foot leader

@joshuavarnell8428 7 месяцев назад

"How far they travel." That Trench that opened up in the gulf, Florida is closer.

@joshuavarnell8428 7 месяцев назад

I see soil movement in Louisiana now. (Coastal Planes) I want to know if they are seen near corpus Christi from matamoros

@siriusstar99 9 месяцев назад

The python hunt should be year round . Ridiculous letting this damage to our native species be wiped out .2 weeks a year will no fix this horrific problem.