Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals
Quick ReadStudy: Pythons, other big snakes apparently killing off huge numbers of mammals in Everglades
Photo credit: AP Photo | University of Florida researchers hold a 162-pound Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park, Fla. Therese Walters, left, Alex Wolf and Michael R. Rochford, right, are holding the 15-foot snake shortly after the python ate a six-foot American alligator. (Nov. 14, 2009)
In this 2009 photo provided by the National
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A burgeoning population of huge pythons -- many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big -- appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.
The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that sightings of medium-size mammals are down dramatically...
