Exactly, Loosie has a way of living in both worlds. Personally, I tend to only live in the obscure oneThanks, Matt. Maintaining mystery is a very important and seemingly undervalued quality. I can certainly appreciate the desire to cultivate and maintain a mystique--keeps people interested!
Though it does run counter to his implicit request in the original post for a "team" in the hunt, describing it as "at least a two man" endeavor. Thus, letting others in on his hunt. But perhaps he's the kind of guy/gal who can take the place of two. And his "we" is royal?
Anyway, you guys are fun. Thanks for the welcome.
Thanks for the info t06afre (and also Bill). Here in Australia the snakes are native, or at least the bulk of them are. I just assumed American snakes were native too, thinking of things like rattelsnakes and pythons I have seen in movies etc although I admit the pythons were probably in a South American setting.Invasive species is one of biggest threat to biological diversity. Living in Australia you should know a thing or two about invasive species and the trouble they cause.
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Their eating everything in our ecosystem which is extremely fragile. FL has the most species of reptiles in it then anywhere else in the world. Not to mention all the seabirds in danger, everything thats not a 9ft+ aligator is their prey. Scariest news is a scientist did a study in Northern Tennesee and put a 10ft x 10ft x 10ft area in the mountains around knoxville and brought 5 snakes from the glades up. Their 3 years old now stilll going strong reproducing in TN's climate. So if not eradicated here like wild boar your gonna start seeing em. In 08 when I was in Memphis all the locals laughed at me asking about boar. They don't have em, don't get em, don't want em. By early 09 they were showing up in farms locally.What did the snakes do to deserve that? Eat too many rats and put the rat farmers out of business?
Here in Australia snakes are generally a protected species. It's hard to image snakes as a "pest species", they are slow breeding and they try very hard to stay away from humans.
The problem is of the 800 people that registered only 48 of those were actually registered python/boa hunters with the state. If you read up on the first day you had hundreds of computer analyst wandering into the local park clicking their car alarms to make sure they didn't get lost. Heres a hint, go at 4-5am to the local airboat launches. Thats where your serious gator huntors will be. They will know where to find them and have guns to shoot em in the face. As opposed to the actual snake hunters who are gonna catch em live and collect them. (Should make better TV watchin after Honey Boo Boo!)I'm looking for the man who can find the snake.
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