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Everglades Python May Be Second-Largest Ever in Florida
news.discovery.com ^ | Jul 30, 2015 12:25 PM ET | Staff via CBS Miami

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.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Gardening; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: everglades; florida; python; snake

1 posted on 07/31/2015 12:40:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

OH NO! They killed Suzie the Python!


2 posted on 07/31/2015 12:42:23 PM PDT by AU72
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3 posted on 07/31/2015 12:51:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Red Badger

He could become the biggest just by eating that one in the middle.


4 posted on 07/31/2015 12:53:07 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: johniegrad

LOL!!................


5 posted on 07/31/2015 12:54:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

THIS IS OURTAGEOUS!

THEY KILLED A PET PYTHON!

#PYTHONLIVESMATTER


6 posted on 07/31/2015 1:06:13 PM PDT by seawolf101
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To: Red Badger

I caught it; you clean it.


7 posted on 07/31/2015 1:06:37 PM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: Red Badger

“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.


8 posted on 07/31/2015 1:09:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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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.


9 posted on 07/31/2015 1:14:40 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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Spitting cobras? Kings? That’s not good news at all.


10 posted on 07/31/2015 1:20:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

Monacled


11 posted on 07/31/2015 1:22:45 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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12 posted on 07/31/2015 1:25:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Red Badger

Feed it a porcupine.


13 posted on 07/31/2015 1:49:42 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

He’s dead, Jim......................


14 posted on 07/31/2015 1:50:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

Feed it a porcupine.


15 posted on 07/31/2015 1:58:43 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: tumblindice

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.


16 posted on 07/31/2015 2:14:12 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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