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An American alligator and a Burmese python in Everglades National Park struggling in lock. Burmese pythons in the state of Florida are classified as an invasive species.They disrupt the ecosystem by preying on native species, outcompeting native species for food or other resources, and/or disrupting the physical nature of the environment.
Native to Southeast Asia, the Burmese python found its way into the Everglades in the 1980s through the exotic pet trade and irresponsible pet owners releasing them into the wild.
Aycock, a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades for 11 years. The retired U.S. Army veteran divides his time between ...
The timing is intentional: Pythons typically hatch from their small, leathery eggs each August before wriggling away into the swamp. Aycok loves snakes. He's also passionate about preserving the Everglades and understands the “greater ecological issue with these pythons,” a prolific apex predator threatening Florida's native snakes and mammals.
A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 25, 2019. / Credit: RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images
The video, recorded by wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida while scientists were tracking pythons in the Florida Everglades, shows the 14.8-foot, 115-pound ...
Pythons have overwhelmed the marshes, flatwoods, tree islands, prairies and mangrove swamp ecosystems of the Everglades and Big Cypress throughout Miami-Dade, Monroe and Collier counties.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Matthew Rubenstein holds on to the neck of a 10-foot Burmese python in Big Cypress National Preserve Monday, July 11, 2022. Rubenstein is ...