Burmese Pythons Affecting Florida's Everglades

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Burmese Pythons by Daniel Shepard Burmese pythons are negatively impacting Florida’s everglades. Andrew Ng senator Bill nelson brought a 16 foot Burmese pythons snakeskin to a meeting. Burmese pythons are just trying to find a new place to live so you do not need to kill them. They are trying to get Burmese pythons out of the everglades. There are a lot more people in the everglades because of the Burmese python challenge. Novices are people without pythons hunting permits and do not have no training. This is importing because they can be hurt or killed by a 23 foot long snake. It will eat almost everything they can fit in there mouths. They can be dangerous to lots of things additionally they will not eat a human that is often. When the pythons challenge came up in Florida everglades more and more people …show more content…
Because they can get really big and they can be really dangerous to people and animals. They can get out of there cage if you do not put something really huge on the top of there cage. They can be dangerous to lots of things. The pythons and people have been negatively impacting our ecosystem because of the pythons eating lots of animals and people are shooting lots of animals and lots of animals are becoming endangered.
A Burmese pythons can get to a astounding length of 23 feet long and weight up to 200 pounds and they can eat a lot of meet a day. Burmese pythons are really dangerous because they can eat a human. In Andrew Ng’s article title Florid python hunt, he states “with no Natural predators, these eating machines appear to be wiping a huge number of opossums, raccoons, and bobcats, as well many bird species. This means that tens and thousands of Burmese pythons could destroy all the other smaller animals in the everglades. This means they can drive all the animals extinction which would turn out bad for

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