Largest Python ever caught in the Everglades

impressive

That thing could probably take down a small adult.

I wonder how many gators it’s eaten

Amazon sized Pythons roaming South Florida all because some dumbass wanted a snake collection and Hurricane Andrew blew it over, releasing all of them directly into the wild.

There's a reason Hawaii basically won't let any foreign animals or plants on the their islands

I see a lot of boots.

And I'm almost positive they said it was only 10lb python eating a 6lb deer fawn.
Their point was that these snakes are eating whitetails which are a main food source for panthers.

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impressive

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Thank you. I was cold too.

When my mom was a kid - probably around 1940 - her father was a farm worker. They went to FL for a season of orange picking, and she loves to tell about the panthers and snakes.

One of her stories is about a snake that she swears was 12’ long and so big around that the sticks she and her brothers banged it with didn’t bother it in the least.

I suspect pythons have long been in parts of FL.

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That is exactly how these snakes eat. Swallow head first and push it into the gut until the prey disappears

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I know this. It was an inside joke