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I knew pythons were big and long, but seeing the recent snake hunting news in Florida, MY hair was still scared to stand up.
According to reports, this is the largest Burmese python ever found in the local history, up to 5.4 meters long and weighing 98 kilograms, compared with the size of a person, it is simply a realistic version of the "python disaster".
In order to catch the python, several humans fought with it for 20 minutes, waited until it was exhausted before subduing it, and then euthanized it. After weighing the weight, at first the scientists thought it was bad.
Many snake-fearing people said that the next time they should invite professionals early, directly Dawei Tianlong.
Some people think that this is a foreign snake, and if you want to find it, you must find a professional counterpart.
Seeing this, you probably began to wonder, there is nothing to do, why do scientists catch snakes, and kill people, Fahai does not do this.
In fact, in Florida, the issue of species invasion of Burmese pythons has been going on for a long time.
As you know by name, burmese pythons are a top predator from Asia, but since decades ago, they have been brought to the United States and introduced into the wild. They found a suitable living environment here, and then began to multiply in large quantities, and grew fast and large.
A snake is held by several people and looks like it is in the movie.
These exotic pythons can not only sweep away local prey, but also all-round hunters, not picky eaters at all. They seem to be eating buffets here, mammals, birds, reptiles, changing tricks.
This has led to a sharp decline in the number of native organisms in the local area, while at the same time, they are also competing with other local predators for food resources, which seriously affects the ecological order.
Therefore, this capture is also to study the problem of dealing with the invasion of local pythons and find a good way to catch it.
The method of catching this snake is also very interesting, and the research team uses the tactic of "seduction". Simply put, the breeding of pythons is used to catch more female pythons, which also controls the breeding and indirectly reduces the number of pythons in the area.
But although pythons are moist here, there are thousands of them, but it is still a bit of a needle in a haystack to find them efficiently. Therefore, it is better to let the snake find the snake and find them in the way of the inner ghost.
According to reports, male pythons will be attracted by the largest female, so they choose to let some male pythons as "scouts", surgically implant them with a trackable signal, and then put the "inner ghost" into the wild. When it is time for the breeding season, they will quickly run to the female to breed.
Then people follow the signal, they can find the target location, find one, can prevent the birth of a nest of small pythons.
Take the record-breaking python at the beginning of the article, and after an autopsy of the snake, the researchers found that it also broke another record, that is, it carried 122 developing eggs.
The remains of a deer have also been found in its digestive tract, but the deer is also an important food source for the endangered local Florida leopard.
This method is also effective in that researchers can sometimes find a "breeding herd" that can directly catch multiple pythons, which can better achieve the goal of reducing python reproduction.
However, although this idea looks good, it is still unrealistic to make the python disappear. So we can only start with the two goals of controlling the number and preventing them from spreading.
To this end, Florida has also taken various measures to try. In 2017, for example, Florida invited a group of snake catchers to teach themselves lessons. They were a group of Irula people from India who made a living by catching snakes, and it is said that they caught 13 snakes in the next 8 days.
There is also training dogs to help find the python's hiding area.
There are also some cruel people who are studying whether they can eat pythons.
There is also a more conventional method, that is, to start a fixed hunting activity.
Registration for the annual "Python Challenge" has begun again in the past few days, and this competition is for residents to turn into hunters and hunt pythons.
This year's competition, which will begin in early August, will last a week and is expected to attract 600 participants. Of course, the hunt also sets the bonus, the hunter who catches the most can get $2500, and the longest python can get $1500.
But for hunting and killing, even the humane method of death is difficult for everyone to agree with, they feel that the python did not book a ticket to the United States, and the killing looked too rough. Of course, more people think that since it is already an invasive species, it is good to be able to control it.
There are also some netizens who look at the snake hunting news that is constantly updated every year, and they also continue to fall into meditation, whether there will be a bigger python in the future, waiting for everyone.
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