Their numbers are declining due to habitat loss ,increase in cars running them over or both ?
I would think hedgies when faced with a car rely on their protection not knowing it will not work against a car much like armadillos do here .
I’ve just got a cat NCS…Perhaps if I’d lived around snakes I wouldn’t find them so frightening.
There are lots of ‘Hedgies’ around here, they come into our garden at night and sort out the slugs. We found an injured one last year and took it to ‘Pricklington Palace’ a local lady who cares for sick and injured hedgehogs. After a fortnight it was restored back to health and we had to return it to where we found it late at night. She visited our garden for the rest of the summer…(the lady hedgehog not the vet)
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Trust you … 
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Jetho. Curious to check his Hedgehogs Gender.
Picked it up too check. He’s still Baffled.
But did get a Prick.
To remind him. Not 2B so intimate again.
All da way 2 The Oggin.
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How nice would love to go in the yard at night and see them as love them , they do not destroy anything nor dangerous just nice animals .
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Yep, I love to see them NCS, better than snakes…
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I have never seen an adult python only babies under 2 feet as they move through out South Florida via canals and yes find them cute , lol
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God that made shudder.
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I’m off to bed now and I hope I don’t have nightmares about that snake…
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I like snakes but a snake that big or half that size can easily kill any dog , kids and even an adult if it grabs you and you are by yourself but pythons are here to stay as Glades in impenetrable in plenty of areas .
Python hunt started this week think it last a month but again much of Glades no one get in and private lands not allowed .
Florida has Reticulated , Burmese and Rock Pythons , I have only seen baby Burmese
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It’s the alligators that scare me.
A fact that many people may not know is that black children used to be used as alligator bait.
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Thanks for sharing this, but I could only give it a half second glance!!! 
We watched a series on TV called ‘Guardians of the Glades’ where groups of people went out and caught pythons because they are threatening the other wildlife and the pythons were accidentally introduced and are not indigenous.
They get paid and made a living out of it, but take some risks hunting at night. We were frightened just watching it, but hope they make another series it’s sort of infectious viewing…
We visited the Everglades a few years ago and took a ride on one of those ‘airboats’ it was amazing and the bloke told us that alligators will not eat humans, it’s a case of mistaken identity.
They will only take food that they can swallow because they can’t chew. They see a human in the water and only see their head so they grasp it with their powerful jaws, but let go when they realise how big it is. Trouble is, the grip will kill you. We were feeding them loaves of bread…No butter though… 
That sounds gruesome. I know it’s conservation of the area but it still sounds awful. Bit like our foxhunting and badger culling over here.
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The pythons truly take a toll on native animals I would think even native Everglades cougars are killed by them as some of these pythons are huge .
Native glades freshwater otters have been hit hard by pythons .
Groups of python hunters go in the glades and look for them but again it does take some out but no way they find them all doubt they find even 20 percent .
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When I moved here I was also told that except at night because gators become super hunters at night but this year there have been several day attacks .
I used to go canal fishing by air boat area but have not gone in last 2 years . I like fishing but LOVE walking the canals seeing the wild life
Fatal alligator attack: Gator slammed canoe, grabbed woman, new info shows
New information is being released about a gruesome alligator attack in Florida last month that left a woman dead.
A massive alligator knocked over a canoe with a married couple aboard, killing the wife after snatching her and dragging her under fresh water in Central Florida, state officials said.
The attack took place near the mouth of Tiger Creek near Lake Kissimmee in Polk County.
“An 11-foot, 4-inch alligator bit the woman and pulled her underwater,” Hailee Seely, spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) southwest region, told USA TODAY June 26.
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That might just be a myth and I do not base it on slave owners in Florida being kind but base it on alligators will go after any thing rotted meat , chickens , piece of hog , etc so it was not cost effective to use kids , this info I got online but again no one really knows .
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Hi
The price of rice in Japan has risen by 99.2% over the last year.
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Wow had no idea .
‘’ WHEN DID IT ALL BEGIN?‘’
The crisis traces its genesis to the 2023 harvest.
An extreme heatwave contributed to a sub-standard crop that yielded far less marketable rice. Producers and businesses downstream had caught on to this phenomenon by early 2024 and prepared for the impending shortage by buying up what was available.
Adding fuel to the fire was a strong earthquake that hit southern Japan on August 8, 2024. The tremor triggered the government’s first-ever advisory on higher-than-usual risks of a mega-quake at the edge of the Nankai Trough, and panicked consumers sought to stock up on rice, emptying store shelves. A rise in demand from foreign visitors also contributed.
Those factors led to a 400,000 metric ton shortage by August and stocks from the 2024 harvest were sold roughly two months ahead of schedule. Wholesale prices in September shot up 41% from August and have risen nearly every month since then.
Meanwhile, the agriculture ministry, relying on a crop index that measures production volumes of un-milled brown rice, continued to play down the shortage for months, saying there would be plenty to go around with the new harvest.
Since the early 1970s, the government has effectively controlled the amount of rice produced in the country to balance supply and demand, encouraging farmers to make less of it.‘’
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