Posted on 11/18/2023 6:03:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The recent capture of a 17-foot, 198-pound python in Florida generated national headlines, mostly because it was the second-heaviest python ever caught in the Sunshine State.
The main image showed five men posing with the dead python, which, as one meteorologist remarked, boasted a head “the size of a football.”
Such captures are indeed noteworthy. Burmese pythons are highly invasive and threaten native wildlife. They do not belong in Florida and the state encourages hunting and removal. But what people rarely see, because the swamp-dwelling reptiles are nocturnal, are giant live pythons roaming in broad daylight.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
I will not give hits to yahoo.
You can excerpt any part of the story that relates to the headline, not the filler you chose to post.
I didn’t choose filler, I put the first three paragraphs. FR rules you can’t post it all.
Your posted second paragraph said the snake was dead.
Did you even read the full story of your link before you posted it?
Possibly a serious case of ereptile dysfunction.
Two snakes were referenced in the article. One was dead. The other was from another encounter and it slithered away.
The one that got away was seen back in January 2023. Epic headline fail!
Lots of ugly invasive stuff in South Florida now. Glad I live in north Fla where the winters are too cold for those pythons and those big ugly lizards they have down south.
Likely to have no effect - driving car over python - may hurt the car though.
Is that an American football or an English football? It’s the difference between metric and standard units. Similar to saying a whale is equivalent to the length of 4 school buses.
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