Why aren’t there Burmese python cases south of Florida into South America, assuming the further south you go the better the climate for these constrictors! Would they not be considered as an invasive species and cause havoc to the local wildlife like lets say in Costa Rica

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Why aren’t there Burmese python cases south of Florida into South America, assuming the further south you go the better the climate for these constrictors! Would they not be considered as an invasive species and cause havoc to the local wildlife like lets say in Costa Rica

In: Biology

Answer 1

It’s not like we have done a perfect uniform mixing of animals over the earth’s surface. There is still a lot of happenstance on where things get dropped if it’s not something like a rat that is going to sneak around in grain shipments to everywhere humans go.