Feral species challenge understanding of predator/prey relationships MIAMI––Florida hosts 1.3 million alligators, about a quarter of a million pit bulls, a few billion mosquitoes, and––according to promotional material for the 2016 Python Challenge Burmese Python Removal Competition––perhaps 100,000 pythons, the species officially deemed most in need of killing after the first Florida bear hunt […]
Screaming for the dragon slayer
by Merritt Clifton Chained to fast-falling hunting license sales, with agency revenue and careers at stake, wildlife managers from Florida to Texas are looking toward modestly rising interest in alligator hunting for the miracle that might save them from a fate worse than death––or at least from having to cater chiefly to non-hunting, non-trapping, non-fishing clientele. […]