Case Study: Giant Constrictor Snakes In South Florida
ConGiant Constrictor Snakes in South Florida Marc Komlos, an environmental scientist for the South Florida Water Management District, gave the final talk of the Gumbo Limbo Ecowatch Lecture Series. He discussed the presence of giant constrictor snakes in South Florida, primarily in the Everglades. The South Florida Water Management District is currently trying to find a solution python problem, which, up until a couple of years ago, people did not believe existed. However, biologists have now established that there are giant constrictors in the Everglades and are working to remove them in a humane way. Pythons and boas, classified as Boids, are comparatively large, non-venomous animals with a vestigial pelvic girdle. There are no native