Invasive Pythons Put Squeeze On Everglades' Animals

Dorcas wanted to know how big a bite the pythons are taking out of the mammal population. When he compared the number of mammals now to the 1990s, when pythons were less common, he was shocked. “Once we calculated the percentages, we had no idea they were going to be this dramatic.”

How dramatic? “A 99.3 percent decrease in raccoon observations,” he reports. “Decreases of 98.9 percent in possums, 94 percent white tailed deer, 87.5 percent in bobcats.”

Nearly all the raccoons, possums, deer and bobcats gone.

This python invasion is ridiculous. The more I hear about it, the more crazy it becomes.