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Posted: 12:14 AM Oct 29, 2011
Giant 16-Foot Python Found in Fla. Everglades
Water management contractors working in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a giant Burmese python that had just consumed an adult deer.
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EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) -- Water management
contractors working in the Florida Everglades have captured and
killed a giant Burmese python that had just consumed an adult deer.
Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish
and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the nearly 16-foot-long
snake on Thursday.
The reptile was one of the largest ever found in South Florida. Hardin says the python had recently consumed a female deer that still had hair and weighed 76 pounds. He added it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-10-28-11 1819EDT
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