| Is A Dugite Worth $500,000? |
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Economic aspects of biodiversity with the Dugite & Mulga Snakes. One Dugite (or any other snakes) will eat about twice a week for thirty weeks of the year. If it eats two mice a feed, this will total 120 mice a year. If those 120 mice happen to be 60 males and 60 females, breeding every two months with an average brood of 6 babies (each baby becoming sexually mature at six months), in a single year that one snake will have accounted for 425,700 mice. If each one of these 425,700 mice eat 5 grams of wheat per mouse per day over the period of its life, then during the year they would consume a total of 398,581 tonnes of wheat. With wheat selling at $185 per tonne, the snake has saved $73,737 in a year. A Dugite will live approx seven years on average in the wild. In its life time, therefore, the snake has a value of $516,162. If you can afford this sort of money, go ahead and kill it! |
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