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Posted by Alex Harper on 12:18:12 07/19/07
In Reply to: Re: Python hotline? Panther hotline? posted by Paul-the-other
Yeah I've run into rangers who have said to run the snakes over. It is a national park, so that's actually not allowed (not that it is aywhere else, really).
Larger pythons out there might be monitored with tracking chips, so killing a study snake wouldn't be good. I know one of Skip's employees fairly well, and they are doing a lot of work on the larger snakes. That twelve-foot snake Tricia saw the other night is impressive, but I know they are attaining sixteen feet out there. I have personally seen snakes in the fourteen and fifteen foot range.
The snakes are expanding in every direction possible, as well. They have been seen on I-75 and Holeyland Road already, eastern Collier County, and large pythons have been found north of Key Largo along US-1. Whether they can survive as far north as Lake Okeechobee is the next question to be answered I guess.
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