Comment by rocketpastsix
Comment by rocketpastsix 3 days ago
Pythons in SW Florida are found to have dangerously high levels of mercury[0] so it may not be as perfectly good as hoped for.
Comment by rocketpastsix 3 days ago
Pythons in SW Florida are found to have dangerously high levels of mercury[0] so it may not be as perfectly good as hoped for.
Tuna are also predators. And high in mercury. Not a co-incidence.
As pythons are probably bioaccumulators of mercury due to their position in the food chain, would it be fair to say that the pythons are canaries? Perhaps that is another reason to shoot the messenger.
Sounds like they've improved the living conditions and diet of the canaries, er, pythons.
Shame about the miner incident.
>dangerously high levels of mercury
All the better for a tuna substitute!
More seriously, from your article
>4.86 mg/kg in liver tissue from a snake that was 4.7 m long but overall averaged 0.12 ± 0.19 mg/kg in tail tip
Tuna looks like it's about 0.39 mg/kg, so the liver tissue is suuuuper high but the tail tip is just normal high mercury.