Study: Pythons Eating Everglades’ Mammals

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 | by Pat's Picks

A nine-year study of the Florida Everglades has revealed something disturbing: pythons are wiping out the area’s mammal population. The Sun Sentinel says in places where the Burmese python has been the longest, there’s a 99.3 percent decline in raccoons, a 98.9 percent drop in opossums, and—I was shocked by this until I saw the photo of the front page of the Sun Sentinel—an 87.5 percent decline in bobcats.

SOURCE: Sun-Sentinel