SemperFiDawg
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Not so with the eastern diamondback. Between indiscriminate killing and habitat loss, their population is way down. There`s talk of them going on the Endangered List.
As for those exotic snakes, they could be trouble for a lot of things.
Nic. I think you missed my point. But I agree with you 100%. Once these invasive creatures establish, killing every one you see is NOT gonna be a solution. The Eastern Diamond back SHOULD be on the Endangered List. But when you are talking about and INVASIVE species it's a whole different ballgame, especially where these things are concerned. They all may be snakes, but as far as the food chain is concerned these invasive beast are waaaaay up on the food chain over the Eastern Diamondback. Heck, they eat everything, including you. There's no natural predators after they reach a certain size. That's something the average snake can't say. Everything preys on them all the way through adulthood. And someone already mentioned it gets too cold up here and that they would have to evolve to survive up here. That's not true to the best of my understanding. From what I understand about their adaptation in Florida, they haven't evolved to survive in that environment, they only have to ADAPT. That's a big difference. You can take a snake and put him in a tank, cold at one end and hot at the other and he will ADAPT in just a few minutes. All he has to do is find a place to get comfortable until the cold stress is gone. There's a lot of places like that in these woods, stump holes, sewers, etc. There's some data to suggest that these snakes are already moving up through Florida.
Some of this won't be new to you, but what they found in the study in South Carolina is scary to me as a ole boy who loves to traipse around the swamps of middle and south Georgia.
https://www.seminolenewspaper.com/invasive-burmese-pythons-migrate-north/
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