Head measured nearly six inches from the tip of her snout to the back of her skull
Posted on 06/22/2022 5:50:33 AM PDT by caww
The python was caught at the Picayune Strand State Forest just outside of Naples...... python so large that it took three men to carry it out of the Everglades.
Florida authorities are unsure about the number of pythons living in the state, but the going estimate is at least 30,000 to 300,000.....are found all over the place, neighborhoods and suburbs,' said Main.
Researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured this massive female python that turned out to weigh 215 pounds and measure 17.7 feet long – deeming it the largest python ever recorded in Florida—or anywhere outside its native range. 'Researchers said people would be alarmed to know how widespread they are.'
The python had hoof cores and bits of fur in her digestive tract, which researchers say indicates her last meal was an adult white-tailed deer.
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Head measured nearly six inches from the tip of her snout to the back of her skull
Scout pythons are key to tracking down females in the wild. These males typically make their way to reproductive females during breeding season and sometimes even groups of females and males.
This news flash comes at exactly the right time for me!
Was wondering what to buy my mother-in-law for her next birthday.
Regards,
‘Eating good in the neighborhood’
ugh, so gross
Imagine how strong that thing is…
Apparently they aren’t just in the swampy areas but can be found anywhere - I can’t imagine coming across one of these!
These aren’t native to Florida but were introduced by people who purchased them until they got to big and let them go in the Swamps.
I lived in FL for 13 years, but never saw a python.
A ton of gators though. Jax, Cocoa Beach, and Gainesville.
Unfortunately the concern is these snakes are eating the native animals etc. White tailed deer are now at just 200.
Article states they’ve been wreaking havoc in the Florida since the 1970s.
That doesn’t mean a python hasn’t seen you.
with over 1,000 removed every year beginning in 2017.
Pictured is another Burmese python that measured 17ft long
Yes it’s sad—they can’t kill them fast enough—too bad one of these things didn’t eat the first idiot that brought one here.
I was there 2000-2013.
Gators, snapping turtles, black skinny snakes, water moccasins (Cottonmouth), fire ants, eagles, ospreys, and manatees. Saw plenty of the above…
It has been a long time coming. The first Python I saw in a South Florida swamp was in 1977.
Might explain how this one got to 215 lbs. Good eats.
Food chain wars. Gators or pythons — rate your favorite backyard wildlife!
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