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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.
“I catch more pythons when that happens,” Aycock explained. Aycock, a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades for 11 ...
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.
Two known populations of invasive pythons exist in the Western Hemisphere. In the United States, an introduced population of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) has existed as an invasive species in Everglades National Park since the late 1990s. As of January 2023, estimates place the Floridian Burmese python population at around half a million.
The pair, known to their fellow python hunters as PegBeth, achieved some statewide fame in 2019 when they bagged the 500th python to be caught by hunters working for the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
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 ...
The Burmese python population exploded in the mid-90s after being imported from South Asia as exotic pets. Burmese pythons are usually between six to nine feet but can grow over 15 feet long .