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Snake hunters catch 17-foot python they thought was an alligator: ‘It was crazy’
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November 9, 2023
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1:56Now PlayingAnother day, another behemoth serpent rearing its head amid Florida’s Burmese python invasion. NY Post reporter Ben Cost shares this story.
This time, Panhandle python hunters made hiss-tory after corralling a nearly 200-pound snake — the second largest ever bagged in the state.
“Her head was the size of a football,” conservationist Mike Elfenbein told Fox 35 News of the “surreal” capture, which occurred over the weekend in the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida.
The Floridian — who is not a professional snake hunter — and his son, Cole, had just met three other men searching for Burmese pythons, an invasive snake from Southeast Asia that is now running rampant across the southern United States.
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