How Did Burmese Python Change The Everglades?

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Burmese Python By Alysia Rodriguez “Burmese Python Not the Ideal Pet” by Matt Piven, “Florida’s Python Hunt” by Andrew Ng, “Python Challenge” by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and “Burmese Python” by EcoEchoes.

In Florida in 2013, many exotic animal owners bought the Burmese Python. But as the snake grew, they could no longer take care of it, so they threw them into the wild. Due to this, it caused the snake population to grow, changing the everglades because of their presence. The Burmese python was causing problems for the Everglades because they were the strongest animal.” The snake is one of the largest that was native to southeast Asia, 23 feet long and weighs up to 200 pounds. The snake is carnivorous and survives …show more content…
The first grasps it with their back-curved teeth. As the animal tries to run, it only gets deeper, and it wraps its body around to suffocate the creature. The snake unhinges its jaws and then eats the animal whole.” This means that the snake is made to kill the animals in southeast Asia, and with the animals in the Everglades not used to the snake this leads to the snake becoming the apex predator. As a result, the local animals started to be impacted due to the snake. The local area around where the Burmese python species was spreading had major changes. “With no natural predators, these eating machines appear to be whipping out huge numbers of opossums, raccoons, bobcats, as well as many bird species.” The snake being in a habitat where there are no natural predators they become a killing machine as they kill the animals around to survive but they are not killed so it throws off the natural cycle, and with all of the animals dying this affects the environment as the species start to decrease in size. Therefore, a committee decided to make a decision to help the animals. The people in the United States did help
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