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Of course, Florida is well known to have a multitude of strange things inside its borders. In 2019, a couple in the state used Their pet alligator To help make a gender revelation. Then in 2021, a man from Florida simulated Being a teenage doctor was arrested - and not for the first time. Now the state is a name once again thanks to its Invasive snake population . Read the rest to find out more about the 200 pound python found in Florida, and why these creatures cannot be stopped.

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A simple snake observation is enough to frighten most of us, but imagine if the one you met was nearly 200 pounds. Ecologist Mike Elfenbein And his teenage son was Hunting pythons In Big Cypress National Preserte in Florida, when they made the terrifying discovery, CBS News reported. Three other hunters - Trey Barber ,, Carter Gavlock , And Holden Hunter —So he serpezed at the same time as Elfenbein and his son, and together, they were able to remove it. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"We were foreigners," said Elfenbein. "But we knew we knew we had to capture this thing."

Elfenbein then called the professional python hunter Amy SIEWE , which used a captive bolt pistol (which is the euthanasia method approved by the American Veterinary Association) to kill the Python, and brought it home to determine its measurements. According to Siewe, the female Burmese python turned out to be 17 feet, 2 inches long and weighed 198 pounds.

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Even with five men on the stage, eliminating the 200 pound python was not an easy task. Gavlock first caught the snake by the tail, then the son of Elfenbein Cole and Gavlock caught his head while the five men tried to fight the snake on the ground, according to Elfenbein. The environmentalist told CBS News that the python went from the "flight to fight" quickly and turned out to be a "formidable opponent".

It took more than 45 minutes to the five men to control the snake as it showed "zero fear" of its captors and continued to lift its body from the ground "trying to force them," added Elfenbein.

"It was more than a snake, it was a monster," he said.

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As Elfenbein explained to CBS News, there was no way for the five men to miss the view of this snake, because its size allowed it to stretch almost the entire length of the road. The conservationist sometimes hunts Burmese pythons in the reserve of 729,000 acres, but had never seen such a great one. Even Siewe said it was "the most serious python" that she has ever seen.

"It was difficult to understand the size," said Siewe to CBS News, noting that she captured 520 pythons since he became a professional hunter in 2019.

At 198 pounds, it is the second heaviest python captured to date in Florida, according to Ian Bartoszek , Responsible for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. The heaviest python was captured by biologists of the Picayune Strand forest and weighed 215 pounds at 18 feet, Bartoszek told CBS News.

These invasive Burmese pythons have been doing a house for some time in the southern part of Florida. According to to a report Released by US Geological Survey (USGS) scientists in February, it has been confirmed that snakes had established a reproductive population in the State National Everglades by 2000.

"The population has since developed and now occupies a large part of southern Florida. They consume a wide range of animals and have changed the food canvas and ecosystems through the largest Everglades," noted the USGS , describing the invasive python as "one of the most challenges the management problems of invasive species in the world."

In September, Bartoszek too said to the initiate Let snakes spread, while scientists continue to see Burmese pythons "appear in the counties increasingly north" each year. This, with their large size, made the end of these snakes at this stage.

"With the Burmese Python now distributed over more than a thousand miles from the south of Florida, including all the national parks of the Everglades and areas in the North, such as Big Cypress National Presert, the chances of completely eliminating the serpent from the region are low "," the USGS confirms On his website .

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