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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on June 19th, 2017. I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode, the famous one, of course, is the python, which has taken over the southern part of the Everglades. It's the point where scientists have found that there's virtually no more small mammals out there.

No more foxes, no more rabbits, all gone, all gobbled up by the python.

That's award-winning journalist Craig Pittman.

The Native Floridian is a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times,

where he's covered environmental issues since 1998.

His latest book, his fourth, is, O Florida, with an exclamation point,

how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country from St. Martin's Press.

And there's some weird science included.

I spoke to Craig by phone.

Scientific American and St. Martin's Press are both part of McMillan.

Craig, we have a very modern relationship.

This is the first time we've ever spoken,

but we have been exchanging messages through the direct message function

of Twitter for years now. And it's a pleasure to finally talk to you. Yes, indeed. So you've

written this book. I spend a fair amount of time in Florida. My parents moved there to Boker

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