The invasive female Burmese python captured at Big Cypress National Preserve weighed 198 pounds – the second heaviest python captured to date in Florida.
Conservationist Mike Elfenbein was at Big Cypress National Preserve in FLorida with his teen son hunting for pythons when they both spotted the largest snake they had ever seen slithering across the gravel road. 'It was more than a snake, it was a monster,' Elfenbein told CBS News. Elfenbein said he occasionally hunts Burmese pythons in the 729,000-acre preserve but had never seen a snake that large.
She pulled her truck up behind the others and then spotted 'the fattest python I had ever seen.'Siewe, who said she has caught 530 pythons since becoming a professional hunter in 2019, told CBS News that 'it was hard to comprehend the size.' Using a captive bolt gun, which is the method of euthanasia approved by the American Veterinary Association, she killed the python.
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