Apparently yall have 2 million alligators living there and now you've also got 150 000 pythons. How are 2 million alligators sustaining themselves? Do they eat eachother? Is wild life crazily abundant there ? What's the go

friend recently sent me this pic from Trampa. cute little bugger. just out for a little stroll. i would like him as a pet. i'd put him on a leash and take him for walks around the neighborhood.

the pythons are a plague on the everglades, stupid fukking phgt humans released their python pets and they've multiplied ever since, there's bigass hunting parties that go out to slaughter pythons all the time but it's barely doing anything

alligators are chill af, if you play golf in south FL you see them all the time in close proximity. Stay away from the 8ft+ ones just because they're legit dinosaurs but they only care about sunbathing and being left alone 99% of the time. There's wild boar in FL so I'd imagine that is what they eat

oh and don't run next to bodies of water with a dog, the gators like to grab the dog as it's running along the water

I've lived in South Florida for four years now. I've seen one huge gator on the side of a major road in my town. I've seen many others in protected natural areas and along the Alligator Alley highway, but no others in suburban/urban areas. They're not quite as ubiquitous as the news/internet makes it seem.

I thought the pythons were from hurricane Andrew destroying a snake breeding facility and all the snakes getting loose

You pretty much assume that any inland body of water has the potential to have gators in it - we don't swim in lakes etc.

Don't forget the Everglades is 1.5 MILLION acres brah. I live about 20 mins from the edge of it and it's a vast giant wilderness.

Isn't the Everglades fukking huge though. I'd assume it's full of all kinds of chit.

Been to Florida multiple times and saw plenty of gators around almost every body of water i drove past lol. Used to see some basking at the side of the lakes even close by to the Disney resort. They're literally everywhere. Not really any danger though, they're usually either basking or just chilling in the water with their eyes showing. We heard and saw a lot in quite a few of the villa neighbourhoods we stayed at

Saw a bunch of gators when I visited but they aren’t just walking down the streets of Miami though. You would usually see them near a body of water and they are used to humans so it’s mostly safe. Had no idea about the pythons

They're to be assumed to be in every pond from the keys to north carolina, srs. Plenty of ponds you'd say "no way a gator would be in there" then a month later you see that black mass floating out there. They are like snakes in the sense that if they dont want to be seen, you aren't going to see them.

Also, python is a class of snake that includes many many species. Probably all of them live in the everglades lmao. The problem is burmese pythons as they were the initial release from 1992 Andrew hurricane as well as they were the most popular in the pet trade in terms of availability and SIZE.
Ball pythons are everywhere down there too, but they max out at 5 feet, so less of scary prospect.

The real issue is fact that we have seen a 99% decline in mammal population in the everglades in the past decade. Now this is a study area within the vast expanse of the park system, but still 99% decline in 10 years....

Sounds so dangerous

I've caught plenty while fishing, srs. Not a big deal when you're used to it. This is one I pulled from a canal - got his two brothers as well.