16-Foot Python That Ate A Deer Captured, Killed
Posted by Justin on November 1st, 2011
Gigantic snakes in the Everglades aren’t all that rare. Massive pythons that make snakes out of full grown deer? A little more cause for concern.
Doe. A meal. A female meal.
Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the snake on Thursday. The reptile was one of the largest ever found in South Florida.
Hardin says the python had recently consumed a 76-pound female deer that had died. He says it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north.
76-pound doe? Fat kids playing pee wee football don’t weigh 76 pounds!
It’s a good these things are in a far off remote area of the country. Unless you live in a town within 10 miles of the Everglades. Like I do.
Then you’re screwed.
Dammit…
[AP]
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