Florida: 518 feet female python, one of the largest ever caught

A group of scientists captured the largest python found in the Big Cypress National Reserve in South Florida, United States. The specimen is more than 5.18 meters (about 17 feet), weighs 63.5 kilograms (140 pounds) and contains 73 developing eggs in its body.

"It's the biggest python ever removed from the reserve", noted the official story of Big Cypress in their social networks. The team of researchers and scientists used a new technique to find these types of animals: they placed a radio transmitter on a male python and this allowed them to locate the place where the female was, ready to lay their eggs.

The team, in addition to removing the snake, collects data to study behaviors and mating of different breeds, to learn how animals use the reserve, which has an area of ​​nearly three thousand square kilometers.

This type of snake is very invasive and the team dedicated to the protection of Big Cypress tries to identify them as quickly as possible, because they are a big danger to the local fauna.

This is not the first specimen captured in the areahas, especially in recent months, after the implementation of radio transmitters, which had never been used for this purpose, but this is the most important recorded.

Pythons are considered a public enemy of the local government. The Water Board of South Florida created, in March 2017, the python elimination program. "The program encourages the most energetic people to "Apply euthanasia" to these destructive snakes, become the largest predator in the region", They explain on their official website.