Is a more harmful python emerging in the Everglades?

Researchers at Everglades raised fears that they discovered a snake with a genetic marker of Indian Python and that hybrids with Burmese Python might produce snakes inhabiting water and dry landscapes. © Nathan Rupert

A biologist studying invasive mites at Everglades in Florida encountered alarming discoveries. Most of the snakes that they studied, as expected, showed heredity of python bivittatus, but 13 also had a genetic marker from python molurus in India. According to Miami Herald the risk of creating "super snakes" will increase if these hybrid snakes can inhabit the landscape of the waterside of Burmese Python and the arid lands inhabited by Indian Python snake . "If the range of Python in India is more extensive, perhaps these Everglades snakes will have this ability," USGS geneticist Margaret Hunt told Herald. "This is very interesting and very surprising, but I do not know how much is in the population."

Python's invasion is particularly widespread especially in South Florida where Everglades in Florida can find plenty of pythons. It was suggested that Florida 's Everglades Burma' s number of Python snakes has reached the smallest viable population and has become an invasive species. Hurricane Andrew was considered responsible for destroying breeding facilities and zoos in Python snake in 1992. These escape snakes spread to Everglades in densely populated areas. More than 1,330 people were captured in Everglades. In addition, between 1996 and 2006, Burmese Python snake was welcomed with pet deal and more than 90,000 snakes were imported to America.

Everglades in Florida is famous for crocodile, but now another reptile became king. It is an invading Burma Python. The snake species of South Asia and Southeast Asia was first discovered in Everglades, Florida in the 1970s. Recently recorded 1,100 python capture, the institution extended this program, and Everglades National Park has joined the efforts to recruit python hunters, remove snakes and allow the use of shotguns. "I think the park is really the center of Python's invasion," Kirkland asserts.

The Florida Fisheries Wildlife Conservation Committee announced Thursday that he is hiring a Burmese Python hen hunter to remove invading species from Everglades National Park. FWC is building a partnership with Everglades National Park and expanding its efforts to eliminate Python. With this partnership, a fee-based FWC contractor can disassemble the python in the park and increase the maximum allowable hunting number in the park from 40 to 120 people. Trained personnel are entitled to capture Python and forward it to Python