A nursery raid of sorts in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve led to officials capturing two female Burmese pythons, dozens of their hatchlings, and 23 eggs.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said officer Matthew Rubenstein was on routine patrol in the preserve on July 11, when he ran into Alex McDuffie, a python contractor, who had just bagged a hatchling.FWC Officer Matthew Rubenstein with a 10-foot female Burmese python that was found sitting on eggs.Sensing a nest nearby, they continued to search and found a mulch pile with a 10-foot female Burmese Python sitting on 23 unhatched eggs, CBS Miami reports.
The following night, McDuffie returned and captured the female python from the second nest — she came in at 17 feet and 6 inches, according to the FWC. FWC officer Matthew Rubenstein and python contractor Alex McDuffie at a nest where a 10-foot female Burmese python was sitting on 23 unhatched eggs.Last month, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said that biologists caught the. The snake was nearly 18 feet long and weighed 215 pounds; it also had 122 unhatched eggs.
This Dec. 2021 photo provided by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida shows biologists Ian Bartoszek, right, and Ian Easterling, center, with intern Kyle Findley and a 17.7-foot, 215-pound female Burmese python captured by tracking a male scout snake in Picayune Strand State Forest. The Burmese python is an invasive species, and capturing its females is critical to disrupting their breeding cycle.
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