Ep. 432: Hit 'Em Where They Ain't with Ian Frazier
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Importance of Pythons in Deer Hunting in South Florida
Bob Reed wrote in to say this is the researcher from the USGS who works on population dynamic issues with invasive Burmese pythons in south florida. He said sorry to hear that a dude in florida hates you because I said there's no evidence that the python control programs are having a significant effect on populations at landscape scales. Bob Reed: panthers hammer white tails okay they did some work they did some known fate survival data meaning they put 241 callers out on adult deer in the florida panther national wildeiff refuge and big cypress national preserve from 20 2015 to 2018. They have 134 mortalities now sandy take a guess 134 mortalities
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