A few days ago, in the United States, there was a Xu Xian to see, all called the insider "new things", the Researchers in Florida, the United States, through the way of "seduction", successfully captured a large female snake, after weighing, this "seduction" of the big female snake is 5.4 meters long, nearly 200 pounds.
Because it is so big, so after the initial weighing results came out, these researchers in the United States even wondered whether the weighing equipment was broken. After reconfirming, it was finally believed that this was really a "super snake".
Although it was amazingly large, the Americans did not want to leave it, so after weighing, the big female snake was euthanized, and then its stomach was cut open, and it was found that it not only had 122 eggs in its abdomen, but also the remains of a white-tailed deer that had not been fully digested after it had swallowed.
I have to say that this big female snake is really eating an amazing amount, many Americans learned about this matter, but also felt afraid, think that fortunately successfully trapped it, otherwise, if someone in the wild really encountered it, then, it is very dangerous. At the same time, some people are curious, how do these researchers in Florida in the United States "seduce" this snake?
Where did the Burmese python come from in the United States?
It is reported that the big female snake caught by the Americans this time is a "Burmese python", which can be seen from the name, which is not a native species of the United States, but a man-made "foreign invasion" animal, naturally, the Americans hate them very much.
From the data point of view, the first discovery of Burmese pythons in the wild in the United States, about 20 years ago, at the beginning, with the rise of climbing pets, many Americans also purchased Burmese pythons from abroad and wanted to raise them as pets, but because burmese pythons are very large and the amount of food is also very large, so, over time, there will be people abandoning the situation.
Therefore, with the often released and abandoned Burmese pythons in the wild, the number of Burmese pythons in the Wild in the United States has also increased, of which the most serious place of "snake plague" is the Florida of this time "color luring" the big female snake, through the data, in Florida, there are at least 300,000 Burmese pythons in the wild, and this is still incomplete statistics.
Some friends may wonder, how can so many people in Florida abandon Burmese pythons? In fact, these Burmese pythons are not all abandoned, in 1992, Florida was hit by a very serious storm, when several Burmese python farms were destroyed, resulting in a large number of Burmese pythons escaping into the wild.
Because burmese pythons themselves are relatively intelligent snakes, they will not only hide themselves in the trees, but also stay still in the potential water or swamp when they perceive danger, so although Florida has launched a large-scale search later, they still have not caught a few escaped Burmese pythons.
Because the climate environment of Florida is very suitable for Burmese pythons, and at the same time, these Burmese pythons do not have any natural enemies, coupled with their reproduction rate is very fast, every year in early spring, they will begin to lay a large number of eggs, an adult female Burmese python, at least 60 snake eggs can be laid in a year, and after hatching, it only takes 1.5 years to reach sexual maturity, and then they will enter a new round of breeding.
This also led to a terrible multiple increase in the number of Burmese pythons in the United States, especially in Florida, so for many years, Researchers in Florida have been headaches about how to eliminate Burmese pythons in the wild, so, finally after research, they unanimously decided to catch female Burmese pythons through "sex seduction".
The first time I heard: Americans actually "seduced" the method of catching snakes? Why?
As one of the "sexually reproducing" species, Burmese pythons also need to be mateed during the breeding season before they can be fertilized and spawned, so researchers in Florida thought of using male Burmese pythons, purposefully released into the wild, through them to lure female Burmese pythons closer, and then trap them.
To put it simply, it is to use the male Burmese python to "seduce" the female Burmese python, although it seems incredible, but in fact, this method is also effective, after all, if the number of female Burmese pythons in the wild is reduced, then the number of new Burmese pythons will also decline every year, as long as they are persistent, while controlling the situation of human release, the number of Burmese pythons in Florida, the United States, is bound to gradually decrease, which is a matter of time.
Speaking of which, in addition to the United States, because the Burmese python is a very popular snake, so there are many people in the mainland to raise Burmese pythons, and then there is a behavior of private release, before the mainland has also found abandoned Burmese pythons in many places, the harm to the ecological environment is very large, so here also remind everyone: no matter what kind of animals are raised as pets, do not release them at will. So, friends, what do you think of the American practice of "seducing" the Burmese python?