Coldest Winter In 30 Years Put's Florida's Pythons In Fatal Position | Python Hunters | Real Wild
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2024
- Join the Python Hunters team in Episode 2 of their thrilling series as they brave the coldest winter in 30 years in the Florida Everglades. Explore the impact of an unprecedented cold snap on the invasive Burmese python population and witness the hunters' efforts to study, manage, and eradicate these resilient predators. From encountering severely injured pythons to exploring remote habitats and using an airboat for navigation, this episode offers a captivating blend of conservation science, wildlife exploration, and ethical considerations.
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Aren't the pythons an invasive species & would it be a bad thing if they died because of the cold? People moan about the problem so if mother nature plays it's part in getting rid of them you should be happy.
Exactly, Let Mother Nature do it’s thing.
Agreed
@@shaunblevins3303except it’s not Mother Nature it’s climate change as a result of OUR doing
2 words , " climate change ". It must be bad , right , lol.
That's my thought too. Why talk about keeping an invasive specimen alive? Sounds like mental masturbation to me. Better to start a vulture breeding program.
I'd be pretty darn happy that Mother Nature was correcting a problem. They don't belong there, right?? I don't hate snakes, but they are invasive in that area, no? Over populated and that's why they are hunted?
They are being hunted because they are wiping out native species. There is no defense against them. No native species to eat them except alligators and the snakes eat those too once they are big enough.
Yes, they have no predators and they are killing off our wildlife. And they've been known to swallow or crush little children.
both.. invasive and eating obscene amounts of the mammal wildlife in the everglades.. each python eats an absolutely absurd amount of animals every year and each female can have like 30+ eggs each year.. From what i read tho the females are common.. the breeding-ready males that are old and big enough are rare (for whatever reason) so those are the best ones to catch (breeding-aged males) bc they will stay in same area and breed with every female they run into
The cold will certainly reduce their numbers, which us great. I wonder if it's having the same effect on the iguanas
For the cold, they find a place warm enough to survive. That's how they are able to make it in these different environments.... the evolution only goes so far.
The iguanas are affected also, they fall out of the trees when it gets cold (40s)
@@hobsonbeeman7529 Yep!!!
You see that first snake surviving what it did shows that they will never be able to get rid of them all. They are too resilient!
How about quit playing with the Burms and the other invasives and dispatch them like you're supposed to.
Thank you doctor
@oldcremona you think invasive species are ok and should be left alone?
@@heidihughes7013 IKR, sometimes I think that "Those Kind of People" need to be dispatched with them. 😆👍
@@MAGGOT_VOMITI wouldn't go that far. They just need a factory reset on their brain cells
Had you ever heard about scientific research?
Isnt it a good thing that the cold could kill them
Sure is!!
Absolutely!
They are invasive, and it’s still very sad to see slow, traumatic death.
Glad you are sharing this. Scientific curiosity.
You guys are showing compassion for a species that is wiping out a lot of FL's natural wuld life... yeah, last time I ever look at something from y'all
Cats are m as king the songbird extinct so are you killing all the cats in your neighborhood
This was from nearly 15 years ago when the population was much lower and the laws about them were different.
How exactly did they figure this is one of the coldest winters in 30 years? This has been one of the mildest winters we've ever had here. We are on the Space Coast and didn't even use the main house heater once. Just the little plug in heater in the living room a few times.
Always great to know the real story.
I'm in South Florida (off the southeastern edge of The Everglades) and winter has indeed been much cooler than normal. If this cold (by our standards) kills the snakes....then plenty of good has come of it.
Space Coast here too, (N. T’ville.) And I’m a 5th gen native. We ran our heater twice. And only at night. Maybe the Gulf Stream and warmer Atlantic waters is keeping it warmer here, but 95% of the time I’m sweating or hiding in the AC. And, a few weeks ago a Berm was found in S. Brevard Co.
In central Florida, we have, in fact, had a long and cold winter.
I don't know if you saw, but this episode of Python Hunters dates from 2010. It's 14 years old, dude.
This is the second time I've heard "coldest year in Florida". I'm in central Florida and we got down to 38°. I believe it was in the 20's in 2004, for 5 days. The year I gave up on tropicals from South America and Australia.
2009 and 2010 were the worst years
As a Floridian, this was NOT the coldest winter in 30 years. I don't think that there was even a light frost in South Florida this year. We didn't have a hard frost in Northeast Florida.
This episode was from about 14 years ago.
I live in Daytona is was saying the same thing
Agreed.We haven’t had a hard freeze in s Fl since 2009 and 2010
Yeah I'm not in FL but it was a warm winter up in the NE for us too. They just like drama.
@@PatrickBaptist This episode was from 14 years ago.
I had one as a pet decades ago ,we lost our boiler, had no heat and it died from the cold weather. I liked that snake but I still wouldn’t recommend them as a pet because they are dangerously strong.
"Keep up the good hunt men"!
The thumbnail you used is a viper, not a python.
It is a clickbait bro.🤣🤣🤣
Sums up the quality or lack of in this Video. Every time, I watch one of this channel's videos. I'm left bitterly disappointed.
So misleading 😊
@@Irish_Mart
Yoo
Did you like this one?
great video !
we need a month of really cold weather in the month of November. Mother nature needs to help solve this huge problem of Pythons, iguana's and now monitor lizards.
Great !
That's fantastic for our environment, as they are a prolific invasive species, that are devastating native wildlife!
yea for cold weather
There's a reason why I live where the cold weather hurts your face.
The ones that survive will be adapting to the local climate. You might need to reclassify the species Python bivittatus *floridensis / atlanticus / subtropicum*
excellent
Guys, it's not a matter of " Oh goodness, save the poor snake...
Data is essential, and knowing the "Why" may help with curtailing this invasion
I live in Florida lol. What cold!! I'm in central Florida and we didn't even have a frost this year.
It was a warm winter up north, also.
Thanks for keeping it real.
The cold is bad for the pythons, that has to be a good thing. I would think no problem! but is that cold also bad for Floridas natural creature's?
What is left of them,no.
I don't think so they can survive cold more than the invasives. Here in Canada we have snakes that survive the winter and it can get very cold but they know to go underground where invasives never have to go underground in Asia
Yes, it is. Alligators could potentially have the same issues with cold as burmese pythons.
Gators , Iguanas , could die in cold also.
Personally, I think God took a hand in this matter. Where I live in the North East, we haven't had snow in years. So if Florida gets cold weather and that has a good impact on lowering the number of Pythons in Florida 👍🏼👍🏽👍
And all who differ with God taking a hand in this - so what.
Your god is a myth. He doesn't exist. He's as real as the tooth fairy.
I think the cooler weather had a lot to do with the fact that the first snake made it this far without dying with those cuts.
YES/NO/MAYBE ?
The cold weather is why the snake got like that. It was to cold for the snake to warm up and fight to defend it self.
This could explain the extiction of dinosaurs,long cold snap after metioerite
That's pretty low, stepping on snake toes! LOL
Isn't it possible that the Python attacked a mammal with a strong bite, and the wounds to the snake occurred when that animal was defending itself and survived by escaping the pythons powerful grip?
That animal could've been a good sized dog, a pig or boar, a bobcat or a cougar.
With the way Pythons constrict, no.
I looked it up and he is right 💯
Snake juice, the drink of real snake hunters. I'm not a fan of snakes , they give me the willies. Good luck catch lots
Good pythons arent native to the U.S., time to clean house
Global Boiling at it again
It's in the name: "Climate _Change"._ It means that there will be more extreme weather events. This is an extreme weather event. It also happened back in 2009-2010. This show is 14 years old.
@@DrachenGothik666Climate change was once called global warming, but this wasn't vague enough for it to be blamed for every random weather event including ones that are the opposite of global warming
I find it odd , headline refers to python yet the photo shows a pit viper, I see this alot VALIDITY?
Well it sounds like we don’t have to worry about those dumb things in Iowa thank goodness
I was in FL last June, when it was 108F. Sure didn’t think it was too cold.
This show aired like 14 years ago.
In other news, I ate today so world hunger can't be a thing.
They're talking December January February you know the cold weather months. You're talking June the beginning of Summer so of course it's warm.
I'm not an expert on alligators , but when one said the snakes ribs could be due to an alligator bite, they do not normally let go and would eat the whole snake , bones included, so think that's doubtful, snake could of got away maybe but again doubtful ....
frozen pythons-- well worth other losses for sure
3/4 Oz. Of #4 shot as you run by should sort out these invasive snakes, why would there be a limited licensing?
Machete
You want people who don't know what they're doing traipsing through the Everglades shooting at snakes large enough to be dangerous to humans?
That is a good thing. Pythons are invasive and are destroying Floridas swamplands.
The snakes aren't doing anything to the land itself. The swamps are safe. What the pythons are doing is eating local native wildlife. _THAT'S_ the problem. They aren't capable of damaging the land itself.
Cold Weather Great, Bring it on and Get Rid of those Invasive Snakes.
Isn't this a good thing? I mean, it's an invasive species right?
Good News
Why are you saving these invasive murderers? They are taking over and you are helping them????
This program is 14 years old (taped in 2010), years before the new laws that came in two years ago that say to kill any Burm one finds. Before those laws came in, you could pull the snakes from the wild & either keep them with a license, or sell them out of state. They were following the laws that were current at the time, saving the snakes to study them & how they were surviving.
The big freeze
Well what was it a male or female
Mother nature is going do what we could not, they have to go
It won't ever happen. They're here forever. Shoot i heard Florida even has Anaconda snakes also.
This is Great
I think there was a winter where it got down to the low 30s and upper 20s as far south as Miami FL. I'm not quite sure what year that was.
When Mother Nature gets to work fixing man's fuck ups.
That is what this is.
YONK!
Wait so it’s floridas coldest winter and right now Louisiana is experiencing its hottest? At least in the NW part. Been alive 32 years and never remember it being 80° in February
I live in Madisonville. Dont remember ever having a tornado watch in January.
South Florida is completely different than North Florida. North Florida has all four seasons with temperatures dipping down into the 20s with occasional snow. Average winter temperatures in the winter in N Florida is in the 40s and 30s at nighttime.
@@donaldedavisart3999 got to be Way North Florida because I live in Melbourne on the Space Coast and we've had a super mild winter. Like I said in another comment we didn't even turn on the main house heater this winter.
@@brdavis Greetings, yep I'm in Tallahassee. We are about 20 minutes from South Georgia. It's a wet cold in the winter but I prefer the cold weather and fall/spring over summer because it's so humid here.
I am 61 years old, and I have seen this weather do weird things over my time, the earth is going to do what it's going to do, we don't have control over that, taxing people into thinking they can is foolish, and you are foolish thinking we can.
That problem is so huge you need to have 20,000 people for weeks
The idea of them living in a desert is crazy
Not enough food , water , and gets cold at night.
2009 was indeed cold and the only time I used/enjoyed the fireplace
If & when they ever find any snakes tied in a knot, its believed that Sasquatch/ Skunk Ape is responsible.
Licorice
@@michaelrhodes6461 ???
Freaking AWESOME. These guys are just pissed because their extra bounty income is going to be reduced.
All this mean is that the next generations of Florida pythons will be more cold resistant.
NOT a python in thumbnail photo...WHY ??
Money
Why are they allowing snake breeders to be the hunters? These are the kind of people that are perpetuating the problem.
First rule of business, create the problem and offer the solution
Because you and I haven’t volunteered yet 😂 they’re the only ones crazy enough to go out looking for giant snakes in bug and gator infested swamps
This snake problem was really created by people that bought illegal snakes (some snakes are illegal to bring to US) to Florida and when they got too big they set them loose in the Everglades. The breeders raise up proper snakes that are allowed
Because snake breeders know how to find the snakes, know how to handle them & can identify them correctly. Floriduh Wildlife officers couldn't identify their own assholes if given a map.
Responsible snake breeders aren't the problem. They take care of their snakes and vet the people they sell them to. It's the irresponsible breeders that are a problem.
Besides, it sounds like these guys mostly breed ball pythons with weird color combinations, who are a) way smaller and less threatening to the ecosystem than burmese pythons, and b) unlikely to survive if they ever wind up in the wild because they have no camouflage. How well do you think a snake that's bright yellow with white blotches would be able to sneak around in the Everglades?
When I was 5, my dad caught a 12 foot Boa Constricter and he let it loose in the house.
We couldn't find it at some point and were looking for it. We had an old water cooler in
the bedroom window that summer, and one day my mom turned on the water cooler and
it had been in the water cooler. It descaled the poor Boa. I don't remember what was done with it.
It doesn’t reduce their numbers nearly as much as most people think. They burry up in armadillo holes and can survive colder than they would without it. Temps below 32° could be fatal to around 30-40% of the population if it stays that way for 2 consecutive days.
Could future generations of Pythons in Florida get used to the colder weather ?
@@Bob-te3le yes somewhat. But they’re still cold blooded, so they’ll always be affected by the cold and that’ll stop them from spreading north of about Ocala. However, they do very very well in the summer here so if even half of them survive it, it’s enough to make the population keep growing and expanding north.
Alligators will always survive cold winters.
Hey guys...your thumbnail is not a picture of a Python.
It's some type of viper, likely a rattlesnake, which is poisonous.
Pythons are not poisonous.
Rattlesnakes are venomous, not poisonous. Make sure you know what you’re talking about before you attempt to correct someone else.
Non-native Burmese pythons have established a breeding population in South Florida and are one of the most concerning invasive species in Everglades National Park. Pythons compete with native wildlife for food, which includes mammals, birds, and other reptiles. Severe mammal declines in Everglades National Park have been linked to Burmese pythons. Why are you saving them ?
Yet the idiots in Florida only issue 15 permits to get rid of them. It should be more like 500 permits.
They aren't saving them. Every single animal they catch alive, even if they keep them temporarily to study them, gets euthanized.
They don't harm the wild if they're in captivity. Whether you kill them or take them home & give them a cage, you've still removed an invasive animal. Would you say the same to a feral cat rescuer?
Good old Mother Nature is taking care of the problem herself.
Why is the narrator giving the numbers in metric, and not Imperial? The US uses the Imperial system.
I learn Sooo much from this channel! I learned never try to sex a dead python! 😱🐍
This has been maybe the HOTTEST winter in years, maybe ever (2024). Look it up . There has been no cold snap. This is baffling! I have lived in Florida for almost 20 years. I know a bit about the weather here. IS this AI generated?
This isn't a bad thing for Florida other than it causing native wildlife problems!
If anything it will only temporarily impact the pythons. Just a short matter of time before the numbers are back up and exceeding where they left off
Same thing again!
I grew up in land o lakes graduated land o lake high we would go right into the first off 41 by the school and find huge pythons 🐍 over 16 feet and all kinda of colors
U estimate them to be 16’ or actually measured some? Asking bc that is the biggest python ever found in the states is 16 or 17 foot
@@giacalonebuilding4443 man it was longer the van we was in and thick when we beat it with sticks it’s moved so fast it was hard to keep up we didn’t have a tape measure but a van is about 15 feet it was longer
Need them around the borders
I'm feeling fairly safe here in the comments, so I gotta ask..... hey, Mike, was it male or female??
Unfortunately, partial kills just selects for accidental sports that can survive the cold. Makes the species more cold resistant.
Should special hunting days be declared for cold snaps. Would be easier to catch snakes in open. Seems like all of the python hunting shows I've seen on TV are shot during the summer.
Coldest winter in 30 years? Not in central Florida that's for sure, least not in my experience/location (between Tampa and Orlando). I didn't realize lower down in the state was having it hard this year.
As for this video talking about how far the Burmese can spread? Give me a break. Maybe and I mean maybe they will make it up to lake Okeechobee but anything past that imo is just fear mongering and sensationalism. In my experience with reptiles and owning pythons (Burmese included) I find it very hard to believe they will adapt to thrive in 40F degree terms and lower, let alone frost and snow and a lot of the areas projected for them to expand gets too cold.
Now I love snakes, I love the Burmese, they are extremely misaligned and made out to be monsters thanks to idiot media puppets, but they do not belong here. They have some of the sweetest dispositions (but like any wild animal they aren't going to be friendly when you're yanking em up off the ground. I can promise you though that injured Burm will become a sweety if it survives and they handle it with a little respect) and they aren't out here being destructive with intent and purpose. They have no idea they are not where they're supposed to be, they are just surviving and now thriving. It's more than just the Burmese running wild down south though, I've seen what looks like African Rock Pythons in some of these videos and I know Central American Boas have been found loose as well. Supposedly there have been Cobras seen as well but not sure how true that is, I only saw one piece about it. Then again sensationalism is the name of the game with 'news' media now and the way this python hunter show presents itself proves that.
As well as pythons and boas (and exotic venomous if that's true) there's several lizard species invasive now, not just the iguana. A lot of these animals got their start when hurricane Andrew destroyed everything in its path including fully stocked pet stores (that's been proven) some are truly accidental escapes but a lot are intentional releases by morons. None of these animals set out to do this destruction intentionally though. It's going to take a much more intense effort to eradicate the Burmese and other invasive species than what little Florida state is doing now. It's laughable what they are doing now imo, but hey it all makes for good media drama, right? Ratings and advertising bring in the bucks so let's milk this for all it's worth....
Lying about the weather is the new black.
This video is 14 years old. That "old snap" happened in 2009-2010. Why do people keep thinking this program is at all current? Watch until the end credits, It's copywritten 2010.
@@johnwingate8799 No one's lying about the weather ya dimwit. The show was taped in 2010. It's 14 years old. And yes, there _was_ a cold snap that lasted two & a half weeks back in 2009. There was an ice-storm that nearly ruined that year's orange crop.
but but but muh GlObAl wArMiNg
"Oh hey, that's the snake I sold the day before"
"Nah, I know this one, sold it last week to that guy"
"Are you sure, I think I recognize this one..."
dialogue of the snake-hunters slash breeders caught off camera.....
@3:55 How cruel, that poor thing is suffering and should be put out of it's mystery.
Florida , South Texas , Arizona , Southern California is the only places warm enough year round. Now food sources i dont know about that.
The fact that they feed on natural species, which have no defense against them; I feel that if they die from the cold it is not a bad thing.
You have too many snakes anyway, if they freeze to death that’s one thing, if you don don’t like that, you will find them half dead and can catch them easier.
25k for a snake.... these guys are the enemy..... won't get a like of a subscription from me..... don't put any more money in their pockets......smh
There is nothing more invasive than anthropoids .
That’s torture 👿
I realize and respect that you are studying these animals, but, they are an invasive species. As such, are they being destroyed or revived and retuned to their habitat?
15 commercials. Jesus youtube
Doubt the cold will do it
Could lead to the ones more adapted to the cold surviving
The mysterious animal that bit that python wants it reward from the state of FL
Why are they using the metric system of weights and measures for a video made in the USA…? 🤔
It's probably the version that was being broadcast in a country that used the metric system.
Because science uses the metric system.
So why are they heatingthem up ?
Real smart Experts?
Agree vinniedixon
micro brain but good looking and dedicated
It wont hurt the population! That's why they have so many offspring! Just for events like this!
Dont get no better
That’s not a python on the clickbait, it’s a venomous snake
Greg Graziani still has his hand, so this video was filmed a couple of years ago.