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Transplant them to DC
How effective would flir and nightvision optics be in hunting them down at night?
Cold-blooded animal and infrared? I'm betting very poor. Other forms of night vision would obvioulsy be more useful.
I don’t know what the right number is but for the sake of argument if we had a hunting season in which you could bring in unlimited number of Burmese pythons for $50 per pound, my hunch is Burmese pythons would be erecting memorials to the great snake genocide of 2012.
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I'm sure the snake would be lower contrast on FLIR than a mammal, but I'd think they'd still show up. Being "cold blooded" does not automatically make a reptile "cold", just that they don't expend metabolic energy on maintaining a particular body temperature. They still curl up, find shade, sun themselves, open their mouths and get in/out of the water to manage their temperature.
That's what I was wondering. Short of baiting them with live tethered critters I'm not sure what the options are for tracking them.
I have Casull and will travel.
What's the minimum caliber for snakes that big?