Florida hunters should never cut off the head of a python
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Burmese pythons spread beyond the Everglades as Florida's Python Challenge begins, offering $25,000 in prizes.
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Florida woman catches 60 pythons in 10 days, becomes challenge's first female winner
"There were a lot of little baby snakes just getting out of the nest."
Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped marking on the snake’s head, along with giraffe-like spots across its body and dark spots around its eyes. During the summer months, they’re most likely to be found sunning on levee banks or near trees.
Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from halfway around the world that have consumed a significant ...
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Florida biologists turn GPS-collared possums into python bait in new hunting tactic
"We're not putting these animals out there and in harm's way. Harm's way is there. We're just documenting what is happening."
Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this tiny marsupial makes it the perfect secret weapon.
