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This is a nice story, but I'm not sure it really adds up. If you're breeding poisonous snakes to turn in for a reward, and the reward goes away, are you really
by ianferrel 15y ago
This is a nice story, but I'm not sure it really adds up.
If you're breeding poisonous snakes to turn in for a reward, and the reward goes away, are you really going to release live poisonous snakes, or are you just going to kill the ones you have and not breed more?
- matwood 15y agoI'm sure many people mean to kill them or they keep them for awhile as pets and then at some point they escape. Look at FL with all the boa constrictor/python problems they have.
- ianferrel 15y agoThat might be the explanation. Are there really enough people who keep poisonous snakes as pets for this to happen? I don't think the Florida situation is analogous because of how much less dangerous constrictors are than cobras.
- ralfd 15y agoIt could also have been, that there was tons of prey available (and snake predators suffered too) and the wild living snakes just thrived after the bounty ended.
- rudyfink 15y agoPerhaps the thinking was, "if we release them they will reinstate the bounty"? Alternatively, you could be correct and the story could apocryphal.