It's true. People let snakes and reptiles loose when they get too big. THey say the everglades is overpopulating with Pythons. Stupid people.
Apparently the Burmese and some other python species have camo that works perfectly in the dry grass in the Everglades. On the NG special a couple of herpetologists tracking a big female with a radio transmitter nearly stepped on her. The bummer part of this is that there will be a lot of species caught between two big reptile predators, the pythons and the gators.