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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.

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31256202/

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>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.

Eating predator livers is a bad idea in any case.

Tuna are also predators. And high in mercury. Not a co-incidence.

Nearly all fish are. And, come to think of it, no one seems to like eating any fish liver.

Ankimo, monkfish liver at sushi places, is great but I suggest you get it from someone who knows how to prepare it otherwise it can be off putting.

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.

Canaries, except that they don't die easily, and do attack and eat the miners. And can slip out of cages.

So nothing like.

Sounds like they've improved the living conditions and diet of the canaries, er, pythons.

Shame about the miner incident.

Isn't that also true for tuna?

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