Posted on 03/14/2022 7:34:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A native bobcat swipes at a 120-pound Burmese python in the Florida Everglades.
in the Everglades captured images of a native male bobcat stumbling upon a python nest and striking at the 120-pound mama snake. Though the python successfully defended her nest, that didn't stop the bobcat, who later returned when the nest was unguarded and feasted on the eggs.
Their duel took place the following day, when cameras captured images of "the python's head at striking distance from the rest of her coils near the bobcat's feet," followed by "the bobcat...swiping at the python from the left side of the frame, then moving to the right [side of the frame] as the python visually tracks the bobcat."
"We’re hoping to see if more natives are able to recognize pythons as a food item instead of it only being one-way predation," Currylow says. "If that's what's happening, that is so crazy! The capacity of this ecosystem to rebound is really exciting."
(Excerpt) Read more at miaminewtimes.com ...
That looks like
a young Cheetah.
“Give me those eggs!!”
Saw a telephone pole on the side of of the county rode going north from Midulla FL one night.
Nect night. Driving back to the hotel.
Nope.
It was a python.
‘Good Kitty’ Ping!
“Tastes like chicken eggs!”
—”It was a python.”
Not fond of snakes and the illegal alien ones even more so.
I know a truck driver for one of my clients. He takes product from their Tampa location to other locations around the state.
He said one night about 2:00am he was headed to Homestead in his loaded 18wheeler.
He said sometimes he takes the parallel 2- lane highway from Naples across the Everglades toward Miami.
This particular night a python was stretched out from one end of the highway to the other on the warm pavement digesting it’s food when he ran over it like a speed bump.
I see “Panther Crossing” signs between I-75 and the two lane highway to the south. Wonder how the Panthers and Pythons get along?
One HAS to wonder why, since they have a video of the snake’s nest, i.e., her location is known, someone doesn’t terminate the snake with extreme prejudice?
And destroy the eggs?
Avery good question?
“researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stationed at Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades captured images of a native male bobcat stumbling upon a python nest and striking at the 120-pound mama snake.”
Probably not in their job description?
Yes - Union rules, dontchaknow!
Something about Disney.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s brother by another mother.
Go bobcats🐆
“Open up the season” on them. The pythons, not the bobcats.
????
—”Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’s brother by another mother.”
Yes!
Someone read the keywords?
NOWAY! Pure coincidence.
In 1872, Big Island sugar planters uncovered an article on Caribbean sugar growers’ success in controlling their rat problem. Sugar planters there had introduced the mongoose from India into their fields. This supposedly was successful in significantly reducing the sugar cane damage caused by rats. Initially, 72 mongoose from Jamaica were brought in and were raised. Their offspring were shipped to plantations on other islands, first Maui, then Molokai, and finally Oahu...
However, there was one small problem. Rats are nocturnal animals, meaning they’re only awake at night. Mongooses are only awake during the day. So the two never came in contact with each other.
https://www.olaproperties.com/blog/lets-talk-story/the-story-of-the-mongoose-in-hawaii/
Fearless Bobcat playing with it’s food.
Bobcat Kills Rattlesnake While Fighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIcpg_pFbF8
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