December 18, 2012

Python Hunt to Yield to Cobra Effect?

Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics


AP Photo

A number of readers — an astonishingly high number, in fact — alerted us to a story about Python Challenge 2013, an effort by Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to “enlist both the general public and python permit holders in a month-long harvest of Burmese pythons” for the sake of “[i]ncreasing public awareness about  Read Full Article ››


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