Record Python Captured in South Florida

[Greyman]

Florida trappers capture record-setting python in Everglades

Officials say Florida trappers have captured a record-setting python as part of a growing effort that encourages hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades

abcnews.go.com

 

[sbhooper]

Boots! Those things are taking over.

 

[BrentD]

The day will come when the pythons hunt us, rather than the reverse.

Snake Tales

An anthropologist and a herpetologist join forces to reveal the complex shared evolutionary and ecological history of pythons and primates.

www.the-scientist.com

Giant snakes commonly attacked modern hunter-gatherers in Philippines

Skin of female python killed by Agta Negrito men. Photo by: J. Headland. Humans have an ambivalent relationship with snakes. The legless reptiles are often feared and reviled, becoming stand-ins for the Devil and movie monster characters; yet many people have grown to love snakes, raising large...

news.mongabay.com

https://photos.mongabay.com/j/headland.python.skin.568.jpg

 

[Kharper]

Wow, big snake!

 

[LousyResident]

The day will come when the pythons hunt us, rather than the reverse.

Snake Tales

An anthropologist and a herpetologist join forces to reveal the complex shared evolutionary and ecological history of pythons and primates.

www.the-scientist.com

Giant snakes commonly attacked modern hunter-gatherers in Philippines

Skin of female python killed by Agta Negrito men. Photo by: J. Headland. Humans have an ambivalent relationship with snakes. The legless reptiles are often feared and reviled, becoming stand-ins for the Devil and movie monster characters; yet many people have grown to love snakes, raising large...

news.mongabay.com

https://photos.mongabay.com/j/headland.python.skin.568.jpg

That black and white picture! Holy smokes.

 

[BrentD]

That black and white picture! Holy smokes.

There is a color version of it, but I couldn't find it, sorry.

 

[Irrelevant]

Largest Python Ever Captured in Florida Is Nearly 18 Feet Long

Researchers captured the biggest Burmese python on record in Florida this spring: a 215-pound female containing 122 developing eggs.

www.outdoorlife.com

 

[rwc101]

This one escaped or was released in VA recently.

 

[PrairieHunter]

Snake people are just weird. The gift that keeps on giving, pet snakes in the wild.

 

[BackofBeyond]

Largest Python Ever Captured in Florida Is Nearly 18 Feet Long

Researchers captured the biggest Burmese python on record in Florida this spring: a 215-pound female containing 122 developing eggs.

www.outdoorlife.com

Hard pass on that nope rope.

 

[Gerald Martin]

I’ve always wanted a snakeskin couch. That one would be big enough to upholstery and entire living room set.

 

[Rob96]

A couple of weeks ago here in the Allentown area a 28 year old was killed by an 18' constrictor. It was reported to be a Boa but it seems they grow to a max of 14', so either a python or Anaconda. Police arrived to see the individual on the floor with the mid section wrapped around the persons neck. He died a couple of days later. Supposedly he was a rescuer who rescued snakes from abusive homes or from neglect.

 

[gouch]

When seeing these pictures of giant snakes, is anyone else's first thought "boy I could cut a lot of steaks out of that thing"?

 

[Sytes]

"...because they add between 30 and 60 hatchlings each time they breed."

Youch!

 

[drexal]

I was going to do the 2022 Python Challange hunt, but I've already got too many irons in the fire. Maybe next year.

 

[Irrelevant]

Hunting Dogs Used to Target Florida's Invasive Pythons

Labrador Retrievers are used to hunt invasive pythons through scent detection, protecting the threatened Everglades ecosystem.

projectupland.com