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It will be very expensive. The Everglades is not easy territory to go hunting for pythons, and as you read, they lie in wait, which makes them hard to find. ht
by dalke 12y ago
It will be very expensive. The Everglades is not easy territory to go hunting for pythons, and as you read, they lie in wait, which makes them hard to find.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-10/killing-pythons-for-cash-lures-hunters-to-florida-s-everglades http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-10/killing-py... points out that it takes about 92 hours to hunt down snake.
In that month-long Python Challenge, which drew "1,600 people from over 30 states in the hope of cash prizes" only 68 pythons were killed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280518/Hunters-kill-68-snakes-month-long-Python-Challenge-help-infestation-plague-Everglades.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280518/Hunters-kill...
- Red_Tarsius 12y agoThank you for the info. I would have never imagined hunting them would take so long.