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 Re: الثعابين تظل وأعية بما يجري بعد فصل رأسها (Re: علي محمد الفكي)
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7,271 ViewsJAN 23, 2013
The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does little to solve conservation problems.
Officials with Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC) say the 2013 Python Challenge is meant to raise awareness about the invasive species. Floridians have a fondness for pet snakes, but many don't realize just how huge Burmese Pythons get to be. So when these slithery monsters get released into the wild, they wreak havoc on the indigenous wildlife in the state's Everglades National Park. The purpose of the Python Challenge, according to the event's website, "is to raise public awareness about Burmese pythons and how this invasive species is a threat to the Everglades ecosystem." Around 1,300 snake hunters have signed up and completed the two-minute online training course required to participate. The person who snares the most pythons gets $1,500; the longest catch earns $1,000. Hunters have been told to bring the snakes in dead—live specimens won't get them any prizes. FWCC organizers are advising hunters to kill pythons by shooting them right in the brain with a captive blot gun, No Country for Old Men-style.
The whole thing sounds a lot like "Whacking Day," that episode of The Simpsons in which the citizens of Springfield celebrate their annual tradition of trying to club as many snakes to death as possible (still above). Today's New York Times dispatch by Lizette Alvarez took a funny angle on this story, portraying the Python hunters as something like a gang of snake-hating Homer Simpsons (mixed with a few of Cletus' slack-jawed yokel-isms):
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