Python Hunter Catches Massive 17-Foot Python In Everglades
One of South Florida's most prolific snake hunters has set a new record for the longest snake caught as part of the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program.
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One of South Florida's most prolific snake hunters has set a new record for the longest snake caught as part of the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program.
Holy snakes! The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program has netted two more giant pythons in less than a week.
It was Miami Beach police to the rescue after a large snake was spotted near the popular pedestrian mall on Lincoln Road.
Wildlife specialists are demonstrating local Florida residents the technique to hunt and capture invasive Burmese pythons.
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Snake hunters are being paid $8.10 an hour to find invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades, but Brian Hargrove says he'd work for free.
A bounty program meant to eradicate the growing python problem in the Everglades is working better than expected.
Neighbors in one Jupiter neighborhood were shocked to learn of a slithery surprise in a home on their street.
It is python hunting time in the Florida Everglades.
When you hear noise nearby while riding your bike on a path through the Everglades, it really gets your attention.
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South Florida Water crews got quite a site Thursday.
The Burmese python may no longer be Florida's scariest invasive species.
After a monthlong snake hunt, the 106 Burmese pythons captured in Florida may not put a dent in the invasive species' growing numbers, but wildlife officials said Saturday that doesn't matter as much as the awareness they bring to the state's environmental concerns.
The state-sanctioned hunt to eradicate an invasive snake species from Florida's wilderness has resulted in more than a hundred Burmese pythons caught with just a few days left.
A dip in temperature may be giving hunters an early edge in a state-sanctioned hunt for elusive Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades.
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A slithering surprise for a Miami homeowner after a python was found under her porch.
Registration is now open for South Florida's Burmese Python hunt which will return in January, 2016.
South Florida's Burmese Python hunt will return after all.
A giant python captured at Shark Valley in Everglades National Park may be the second largest python ever caught in the State of Florida.
The hunt for an elusive python is on in west Miami-Dade County, where wildlife experts said they are racing against the clock to find the Northern African python before it invades the Everglades.
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