rockin'robin

When it came to eating his last meal, a 16-foot-long Burmese python in South Florida did not mess around.

The humongous, slithering snake devoured a 76-pound female deer right before the snake was captured and killed last Thursday in western Miami-Dade County in the Everglades.

Workers from the South Florida Water Management District came across the surprising, and surprisingly large, discovery on Thursday as they were removing non-native plants from a tree island.

Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission captured and killed the python, one of the largest ever found in South Florida, with a shotgun.

The deer was reportedly already dead when the snake consumed it. Autopsy results showed the python had a girth of 44 inches after eating the deer, found still fully intact, inside his belly.

“This is clearly an extreme event,” Skip Snow, a python specialist at Everglades National Park who conducted the autopsy, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “It shows you they can eat huge things.”

Commission officials said their decision to kill the snake was necessary in order to help stem the species from spreading further north.

Burmese pythons is one of the many species whose population in the Everglades has grown recently thanks to their release by local residents who once bought them as exotic pets but then set them loose after they grew too big. Many have also escaped from enclosures destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

16-Foot-Long Burmese Python Devours 76-Pound Deer | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!

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TXgolfer

You can find videos of this kind of stuff on youtube. I wouldn't advise watching it.

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Dixie

And those snakes can stay in Florida!!

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Babyblue

People still insist on buy and trading exoctic animals. Many are invading Florida.

*SMH* Isn't it bad enough that we have so many stray cats and dogs..


The Giant Land Snails are bad in South Florida now.

Here is a list of some of the invasive species we have in Florida.
Invasive species list: Invasive species threaten Florida Everglades, wildlife - OrlandoSentinel.com

Royale

Too many irresponsible pet owners left Burmese pythons in the wild and the nature in Florida has been beneficial to these snakes in speaking terms of their population and reproduction. Hence, they are a very much threat to alligator population and its natural ground. I think I did post a thread about the python killing and eating one alligator here a while ago.

I have watched several shows on Discovery and other science programs about those snakes and the Florida wildlife officials are having some difficult time to deal with them.

Babyblue

Awwwwahh... come on... They will be wrapped around you in no time.

Royale

Or they will swallow him/her up.

Beowulf

At least anacondas do not populate Florida.

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Babyblue

You would be suprised... and they do. Google it if you do not believe me.

Beowulf

Dang. Now I want to move there. Is something wrong with me?

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deafskeptic

Good thing that there's no queen snake in Fla either!

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You can have the snakes thank you very much.

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