They captured the longest python in the world and the images are shocking

April 9, 2019

The Big Cypress National Reserve in the United States captured a python snake more than 5 meters long and carrying 73 eggs in development. This is the largest female python that they have found instead. The animal is one of the predators par excellence of Florida's natural wildlife.

Researchers from the Big Cypress Reserve captured a python and marks a record in the history of the place. The animal found was 5.2 m long and weighed 63.5 kg. He also had 73 eggs in development.

It is about python The largest female they've captured in the national reserve, according to Big Cypress's report on Facebook. The reptile has been located thanks to an innovative technique against invasive species.

The python Burmese is a threat to the native wildlife of Florida. The reserve estimates that there are tens of thousands of these reptiles in Big Cypress and in the Everglades National Park. It is an indigenous species of Asia and it is thought that people had them as pets and that they released them when they began to notice its large size.

Researchers follow pythons at the reproductive stage by placing radio transmitters on male pythons. Once they can capture it, the reserve workers "sacrifice them humanely".

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"They have a very negative impact on animals such as deer, birds and even panthers … It's not fun to sacrifice them, but to protect the many native species of Big Cypress," they said. they explained in the reservation published in the report published on Facebook.

"The team followed one of the sentinel men into the transmitter and discovered this huge woman python "In addition, Big Cypress takes advantage of each discovery to develop new tools to remove them from the site and stop threatening native species.