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How HUGE pythons are wiping out Florida mammal populations (Daily Mail)
more, with "Omigod, look at that huge python!" pics, at link aboveA 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 as much as 99 percent, in some cases in areas where pythons and other large, non-native constrictor snakes are known to be lurking.
Scientists fear the pythons could disrupt the food chain and upset the Everglades' environmental balance in ways difficult to predict.
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