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Pythons wiping out mammals in Everglades, researchers say (KSAT)
Burmese pythons have eaten so many small mammals in Everglades National Park
that populations of rabbits and foxes have disappeared and numbers of
raccoons, opossums and bobcats have dropped as much as 99 percent, according
to a report released Tuesday by researchers at Virginia Tech University,
Davidson College and the U.S. Geological Survey.
"Pythons are wreaking havoc on one of America's most beautiful, treasured, and
naturally bountiful ecosystems," said U.S. Geological Survey Director Marci
McNutt in a statement.
The massive nonnative snakes have become an established species in the park in
the past 11 years, after snakes that were once pets were released into the
wild, according to the researchers. Park spokeswoman Linda Friar said earlier
this month that there are tens of thousands of the snakes in the park.
In the remote southernmost regions of the 1.5 million-acre national park,
researchers could find no marsh or cottontail rabbits or foxes. In those same
areas, the raccoon population has declined 99.3 percent, the opossum
population 98.9 percent, and the bobcat population 87.5 percent, the
researchers reported.
Those animals are often found in the stomachs of Burmese pythons captured in
the Everglades, the researchers said.
"The magnitude of these declines ...
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