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  • African rock pythons add to worries about snakes in Everglades

    01/14/2010 7:11:37 PM PST · by george76 · 13 replies · 1,183+ views
    Sun Sentinel ^ | January 13, 2010 | Andy Reid
    Fears of a new "super snake" emerging in the Everglades grew this week during a hunt to track South Florida's invasive python population. A three-day, state-coordinated hunt that started Tuesday so far netted at least five African rock pythons — including one 14-foot-long female — in a targeted area in Miami-Dade County. Those findings add to concerns that the rock python is a new breeding population in the Everglades ... In addition, state environmental officials worry that the rock python could breed with the Burmese python, which already has an established foothold in the Everglades. That could lead to a...