Imagine having an animal that can weigh up to 200 pounds, grow up to 23 feet and isn’t even native to America and is still harming one of Florida’s ecosystem. This is what the Burmese Python (native to South Asia) is doing to the Everglade’s ecosystem. This animal is being bought by irresponsible pet owners and when they get to large they’re being released into the everglades which is harming that environment critically. The Burmese Python will devour anything in its way it does not have any predators. The Everglades is just like the snakes natural habitat South Asia with a warm climate it didn’t take a long time for the Burmese Python to get used to their new home.
The Burmese python are a beautiful reptilian creature, with camo pattern skin. They are originally from Southeastern Asia and have invaded the everglades in florida. You ask yourself how did a creature from Asia come all the way to florida? Well pet stores have been selling Burmese pythons and have made it out, and are harming the everglades. First of all the everglades are found in florida and are an area marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass, Burmese pythons have made their way into the everglades.
In this essay, I will explain the presence of Burmese python. Next my first explain is when the python eat. All the opossum, raccoon and bobcat because if they keep eating all the animal they are going to be exist. While the danger to the other animal when they are untrained killer in the everglades trying to kill the python and they might accidental kill anther animal or a person because the hunt at night.
This python has a lot of effects on this ecosystem. Burmese pythons are from Asia. These snakes in the United States were used as pets. These snakes are a invasive species. These snakes got into the wild because they escaped when storms crashed trucks and they escaped.
The increasing population of Burmese Pythons is causing a huge problem in the Florida Everglades. They are harming the ecosystem by consuming large numbers of a variety of animals and they not only produce many eggs at a time but they also grow up to be very large, as big as 23 feet. Officials have come up with a way to solve this problem with the 2013 Python Challenge where contestants eradicate as many pythons as possible. This will keep the growing population of non-native Burmese Pythons In the Florida Everglades from threatening the ecosystem. To start off, Burmese Pythons Grow to be very large and are very intimidating, in Source 1 it says, "capable of growing to an astounding length of 23 feet and a weight of up to 200 pounds".
The presence of Burmese pythons is changing the Everglades. The Burmese pythons have change Everglades animals, human lives and the ecosystem. Some people think that the Burmese pythons are original from the Everglades but they are wrong, they are actually from Southeast Asia. . The reason that the Burmese pythons has a big population in the Everglades instead of Southeast Asia is that we de human have been buying them because of their beautiful pattern and dumping them in the Everglades when they grew up to their actual size, also they are staying in the Everglades because of the climate which is humid, snakes like humid climates due that they are coldblooded.
This is terrible because these toxic snakes may go back into the Everglades and invade it. In Source 3, the author says,”Sign up for the competition to harvest the most Burmese pythons or the longest one and win up to $1,500!” The author explains that people can join a competition and win huge rewards. People can also learn all about the Burmese python and what it is doing to the Everglades. Because the Burmese python is in the Florida Everglades and is taking it over, people can do a python hunt to help the Everglades.
Super-sized snake caught in Everglades National Park A large python, perhaps the second largest ever recovered from Everglades National Park, was captured by python research who often works within the park. The python caught in July was taken on the Shark Valley tram road and once extended was 18 feet and 3 inches long; that is only four inches off the record setting 18 foot 7 inches snake that was discovered in 2013. Whether this is a Florida record is unknown because only snakes captured inside the park are tracked officially.
In Defense of Everglade Pythons” to persuade her audience that the pythons should be allowed in the everglades. Her use of metaphors and her word choice both engage the reader and make herself out to be an intelligent author. These are essential qualities in building an argument and persuading a reader in believing one’s
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