Florida Python Hunter Finds Large Python And 25 Eggs In The Everglades
The Python Challenge doesn’t start until August 4th, but for some, it’s a year round thing. The Florida Man knows as Python Cowboy who posts his hunts on his You Tube channel just took down another big python and eggs in a nest. This time the credit for finding the snake goes to his dog, Otto. As Python Cowboy puts it ” Otto is able to smell and cover so much more land than I could ever do by myself. ”
Do NOT feel sorry for this snake. The Burmese python does not belong in the Everglades and poses great risk to the ecosystem and is a threat to native wildlife. As you’ll hear in the video, nothing from this hunt is wasted.
What makes this a true Florida man hunt is that he really doesn’t use any tools. Just grabs the thing with his hands. The video does a great job of setting things up, but if you want to get to the capture part, skip ahead to 9 minutes.
There’s a lot more of this on his You Tube channel to check out. Big python captures make news because those of us that live here know what a problem this is. Now, it’s probably impossible that hunters will capture every python in the Everglades…
But that’s a python and 25 eggs that won’t hatch.
So it’s a good day.
You think you can do this? The South Florida Water Management District sponsors an ongoing ‘Python Elimination Program’ and is searching for “a limited number of public-spirited individuals to humanely euthanize these destructive snakes which have become an invasive apex predator in the Everglades. The program provides access to python removal agents on designated lands in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, Hendry, Lee, and Palm Beach counties.”
If you think you got what it takes to reach into a hole and yank out a snake, you’re better than me. If you’d like to try in the upcoming challenge, here’s the link: https://flpythonchallenge.org/
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