The 16-Foot Burmese Python That Ate a 76 LB Deer in Florida: PHOTO
One more reason not to hike alone through the Everglades (or to release or keep exotic animals, as we saw in Zanesville, Ohio last week, in places they shouldn't be).
MSNBC reports: "(Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission) said the python had recently consumed a 76-pound female deer that had died. He said it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north. The python was killed with a shotgun blast."
WOW, talk about deep throating !!!!
Posted by: Nicholas | Oct 31, 2011 11:58:01 AM
Not many comments here............
Posted by: Tim | Oct 31, 2011 1:48:42 PM
And once again the poor animal gets the short end of the stick.
Posted by: nnn | Oct 31, 2011 2:03:22 PM
And the FFW killed it because?!?!!
Posted by: terryp | Oct 31, 2011 3:23:43 PM
Its actually a really big problem in Florida. They are breeding like crazy. Don't feel bad. My solution it to start humanely killing them and turning them in things like suitcases,boots and bags. Animal control involes killing sometimes.
Posted by: Tonez | Oct 31, 2011 4:12:21 PM
The real idiots are the people bringing these things in as pets and then releasing them. If a python can swallow a deer can also swallow someone's pet or child (or both).
Posted by: Perry | Oct 31, 2011 5:38:14 PM
They can't survive much further north because they can't hibernate in the winter. I'm sure pet pythons have been released all over the country.
Posted by: anon | Nov 1, 2011 4:33:55 PM