Posted on 07/31/2015 12:40:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
This python, captured in Shark Valley, in Everglades National Park, may be the second-largest python ever caught in Florida.
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A python researcher working in Everglades National Park has captured what may be the second-largest Burmese python in the state of Florida, CBS Miami reports.
The snake was captured on July 9 in the park's Shark Valley and was documented at 18 feet 3 inches long. It's just 4 inches shy of the state's record 18 foot 7 inch python caught in Miami-Dade, CBS notes. Whether it's indeed the second-largest, officially, remains unclear, due to differences in record-keeping in and outside of the park.
Florida has struggled to contain the pythons, which lack a natural predator and wreak havoc with small mammal populations in the park.
The snake, a female, was euthanized, park officials said.
There could be more than 100,000 Burmese pythons in South Florida. Native to Asia, it exists in Florida thanks to an international pet trade that started decades ago, according to CBS.
OH NO! They killed Suzie the Python!
He could become the biggest just by eating that one in the middle.
LOL!!................
THIS IS OURTAGEOUS!
THEY KILLED A PET PYTHON!
#PYTHONLIVESMATTER
I caught it; you clean it.
“the pythons, which lack a natural predator”
Alligators and humans prey on pythons. As do king cobras.
But don’t tell the federal government that last part.
Too late.
Been 2 reports of Cobras in TX in a month. They’re here.
How in the h-e-double hockey sticks is it legal to bring a Cobra into this country, when you can’t import certain parrots?
Wow.
Spitting cobras? Kings? That’s not good news at all.
Monacled
Feed it a porcupine.
He’s dead, Jim......................
Feed it a porcupine.
Well the pythons also prey on the gators. Some time back they found a huge python dead split open with a 6 ft gator in its stomach. Swallowed the gator and then split open from it.
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