The Unintended Consequences of Offering Money for a Snake

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I was just a thing that people did and it kept the population down to a certain degree and now it's just exploded because you can't do it anymore down. The other thing that they worry about in Florida with the python is obviously that people are going to breed them themselves and then kill them. What you're actually doing by offering an economic incentive to kill these things is you're offering an economicAn economic incentive to produce a lot more of them to start a snake farm which is what I actually saw in Florida.

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