This expands their dinner options to some of the biggest animals, like whitetail deer in the Everglades. One of the reasons pythons eat large prey has to do with their size. Pythons have big bulky bodies, and the more food they consume, the more energy they have to survive. The ability...
Burmese pythons have hunted most small mammals in the Everglades to catastrophic population declines because they’re a large predator that species in the environment aren’t adapted to. In addition, research has shown pythons in Florida are hybrids that also contain rock python DNA, this further ...