Comments by "John hilderbrand" (@johnhilderbrand9204) on "Casual Earth" channel.

  1. It was somebody's pet that got loose. Found a way to survive, But I guarantee you that was not a healthy animal...(poor thing) Exactly why I will not sell any of my baby retics to anyone who does not know what they are getting themselves into! Doing that to that animal was like taking you to Antarctica and dropping you off. It was probably incredibly aggressive as well. I would be😠
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  2. Comparing mammals to reptiles to insects is comparing apples to oranges. The neotropical Reptiles have specific requirements that have to be met
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  3. FYI this was not done by individuals, As a responsible reticulated python owner I'd like you to know a majority of the breeding population came from a breeding/ import facility that was destroyed in hurricane Andrew. There was documentation of all the lost animals. Among it nearly a dozen breeder female Burmese pythons
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  4. Possible but not likely
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  5. Most structures we create hit below 68ﾟ which a month of that would cause pneumonia respiratory infection and death I own snakes and I know what happens if there are that cold for that long... Also they would not be able to Digest and if they do eat anything it would rot in their intestine
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  6. To reach Tennessee area you'd probably be looking at a minimum of a 100 years probably closer to a millennia But they're gonna shrink in size as they do that... Natural progression North. look at Rosie Boas as an example the ones in Mexico are significantly larger than the ones in Northern United States deserts
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  7. Thats a big girl! My biggest is 180 full of eggs!
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  8. In 1000 years maybe
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  9.  @Not-Ap  Tigers are no match for an adult Burmese or reticulated python There are several videos online of Tigers being eaten and these are not cubs they're adults mothers left them so they're over 2 and a 1/2 years old🤣 And even if the snake's not large enough to eat it it can definitely kill it.. I have a 18' female reticulated python That can pop the eyeballs out of Pay when she squeezes it
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  10. Pig** stupid autocorrect
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  11.  @Not-Ap  You might want to rethink cats... Surprisingly cats are not a natural Predator of snakes for the most part they fear them.Very small snakes are prey to cats as they resemble worms However Burmese pythons, African rock, retics the are born at 24 to 36" never truly a small snake And with given one year they can be 6 to 8' long... You can find a million and one videos on YouTube about cats jumping and running from a cucumber why because they think it's a snake(except tigers They break most rules for cats)And any wild constrictor that's made it to 20 plus feet VERY difficult to get to their head cause they know that's where they're vulnerable,as Someone around them daily They are more intelligent than you are giving them credit for However nowhere near that Kitty's intelligence... But I agree with you( we are "sweating the small stuff") That there are means of dealing with those animals naturally but would reek as much if not more Havoc on our ecosystem... To be honest our ecosystem is dealing with them best it can, alligators of all sizes eat baby/young snakes... But they're just not enough Mainly due to the fact that particularly Burmese and African rock pythons spend a vast majority of time out of water which is out of an alligator's hunting element. Interesting example of this the same facility that was destroyed in Hurricane Andrew, Had 19 adult green anaconda's (There was only 14 Burmese pythons) But you don't hear about an anaconda problem in the Everglades now do you? Their numbers are drastically kept in check by alligators because they are a waterborne snake Making them a regular prey item for alligators... An adult anaconda breaks ribs going on the land, they have too much Weight to support the water supports their weight... And the overall biggest picture is that the severity of the expansion of this invasive species is blown drastically out of proportion
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  12.  @Not-Ap  100%!!!! You picked my brain! that's our best option but keeping it large boid selective is the difficult part
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  13. It was answered... its a variable answer But more than likely not the projection of the map and politicians
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  14. I breed reticulated pythons here in Indiana.. And as somebody who has much knowledge and experience on the biology of these animals, thank you for bringing this to the light and shattering the fear propaganda!!! Large constructors won't utilize the thermal insulation of the Earth though they will use the slow cooling Of water that's how they've managed to survive Florida's cold snaps... Even if the temperature drops To sub freezing temperature( Which is enough to kill them outright) The water rarely drops below 50ﾟ If the water were to get down to say 45 it would be enough to give the entire Invasive population pneumonia and kill them off. And an unfortunate biological adaptation for Florida as well is that these animals breed at the end of the cool season... So a cold snap that nearly kills but doesn't kill off a large female will trigger her into ovulating Thus repopulating those lost🙄 However other than wintering In basements they won't be able to go much farther than they have They would need a buffering agent for our climate that they just don't have
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  15. Yes I am not Negating biological adaptation that does happen all animals that survive an environment adapt to it, However the time frame that that happens is not years or decades.... It is hundreds of years or a millennium... As always I will be thinking about a way to solve the problem. To be honest I would say the best bet will be a biologically engineered Boid STD(since none of our native Boas or live in the area Or are even capable of actually breeding with these animals as they're on a totally different genetic spectrum) The only way to get to them all in our area is to attack their most instinctive Responses, We cannot alter their food without altering our ecosystem, But we can release animals containing a genetically engineered STD so that they breed themselves to death quite literally But it would have to have no effect on alligators , they are opportunistic predators and will eat young snakes
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  16. You'll be fine in New York the worst thing you'd have to worry about is a ball python population possibly carpet pythons😂😂😂😂 They help with the other feral species though There's not enough sizable prey items to sustain those large predators.... I promise I breed reticulated pythons, the longest species on the planet My biggest ones eat pigs Goats and turkeys once every 2-4 weeks In order to Be healthy enough to lay a decent clutch of fertile eggs 25-45eggs And they would also have to find a place to incubate them properly which is even a bigger challenge
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  17. Yes in a Melania
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