Joe Rogan
While going over the hierarchical order of family pets, with dogs at the top of the pyramid (undoubtedly), Joe Rogan and his visitor, comic Jim Breuer talked about the python intrusion of Florida.
Saturday Night Live alum and Half Baked co-star Jim Breuer was raised on Long Island and resided in New Jersey for a very long time prior to transferring to Southwest Florida in recent years.
Breuer informs Joe Rogan he understands a thing or more about Florida’s ‘python invasion’ after a big Burmese python was discovered and gotten rid of from the building where he resides in Naples, Florida.
Joe Rogan’s worry of snakes (‘Ophidiophobia’) is on complete screen here. It’s entertaining to see the previous Fear Factor host squirm at the sight of these intrusive reptiles.
Interestingly, about 2-minutes into the conversation Joe Rogan says “it’s not their environment.” This is specifically what makes the Burmese python intrusion of Florida so complex.
While they are undoubtedly foreign to the Sunshine State, these intrusive pythons have to do with as completely fit to the environment as possible, to their natural camouflage making them almost difficult to find in Florida wetlands.
Some of what he says holds true, and a few of it is speculation. He talks about a ‘wildlife research facility where they were studying pythons’ that supposedly got destroyed in a storm. Then couples that with unique family pets getting launched.
‘Research’ is a stretch here. I think what he was describing here is an unique wildlife breeding center and it was destroyed in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew annihilated Homestead and the Miami location. For all intents and functions, that center became part of the unique family pet trade and not a research study center.
As a born and raised Floridian who endured Hurricane Andrew as a kid and has actually enjoyed the Burmese python danger grow in time, I’m not going to be a stickler on the great points here.
What is good is that there’s constantly a continuous conversation on the hazards postured by these intrusive types.
Tracking Burmese Pythons In Florida
Recently researchers came across a development in tracking Burmese pythons.
Previously, the very best method to track these intrusive snakes wasn’t to go searching for alligators or turtles. It was to wait on a cold day and the snakes would look for the heat of pavement or open locations.
But a recent research study in the Florida Keys that tracked the habits of raccoons and possums equipped with GPS trackers led scientists to a few of the greatest pythons ever caught. They might see the GPS tracker and, according to the Tampa Bay Times, they found out “the signature signal that they got eaten by a snake.”
In that research study, they discovered 12-foot Burmese python weighing 66 pounds and she was ‘full of egg follicles.’ That led them to recognize they might GPS track the victim to start discovering larger snakes in the Everglades.
It’s not a best option however it is a development in the capability to track the largets of the pythons and remove them prior to they can breed.
To acquire a sense of how huge the intrusive Burmese pythons remain in Florida, have a look at the Python Cowboy YouTube channel. He routinely posts videos of getting rid of eggs and big snakes. He likewise gets rid of intrusive iguanas and other nuisance/invasive types.
Videos like this:
It’s worth understanding what’s out there.
