Giant Burmese python caught in Florida

[Goofy]

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/668/python2309582b.jpg (http://img407.imageshack.us/i/python2309582b.jpg/)

The biggest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida has been caught in the Everglades, US scientists say.

The snake measuring 17ft 7in (5.18m) and weighing 164lb (74kg) was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced.

The python - now dead - was pregnant with 87 eggs, also believed to be a record.

Non-native Burmese pythons have been blamed for a staggering decline of mammals in Florida's Everglades.

Scientists say the latest discovery shows just how pervasive the snakes - native to South East Asia - have become in South Florida.

"It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild," said Kenneth Krysko, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

"There's nothing stopping them, and the native wildlife are in trouble."

He said that the snake had feathers in its stomach that would help to identify the types of wildlife it was eating.

"A 17-and-a-half-foot snake could eat anything it wants," he added.

Pythons kill their prey by coiling around it and suffocating it.

They have been known to swallow animals as large as deer and alligators.

After scientific investigation, the snake will be exhibited at the museum on the University of Florida campus for five years before being returned to the Everglades National Park.

[Goofy]

That's a fuckin' big snake! I don't think Samuel L Jackson would appreciate it being on his plane :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've caught bigger ones :hand:

[Goofy]

I've caught bigger ones :hand:

Pics or gtfo [-(

[Bushviper]

I am calling bullshit. 87 eggs each the size of a tennis ball would make a sizable lump in the snake. That snake is too skinny. They also said in another report that they have caught up to 14 in a day. Bullshit. To date all the licensed trappers have only caught 31 snakes in three years.

[minz]

I am calling bullshit. 87 eggs each the size of a tennis ball would make a sizable lump in the snake. That snake is too skinny. They also said in another report that they have caught up to 14 in a day. Bullshit. To date all the licensed trappers have only caught 31 snakes in three years.

You want to see how many eggs my snake can produce and she's only a 7 footer and not nearly as wide as a python, so 87 eggs for a snake that big is excessive but not impossible.

[Goofy]

You want to see how many eggs my snake can produce and she's only a 7 footer and not nearly as wide as a python, so 87 eggs for a snake that big is excessive but not impossible.

So you're 'calling bullshit' on the 'bullshit caller'? :-k

[minz]

So you're 'calling bullshit' on the 'bullshit caller'? :-k

:lol: I was being polite :slap:

[Acid Trip]

I call your two bullshits and raise you three giraffe shits.

[redred]

i have some snail poop any good?

[DemonGeminiX]

i have some snail poop any good?

[-(

Go eat a huge greasy burrito with a lot of beans and come back in a few hours.

[Arkady Renko]

I'll blow the lot of you right out of the water with a load of whale shit:

http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-387410-galleryV9-osci.jpg

[Acid Trip]

I'll blow the lot of you right out of the water with a load of whale shit:

http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-387410-galleryV9-osci.jpg

Whale shit is orange? I'm jealous.

[Richard Cranium]

http://www.iol.co.za/polopoly_fs/iol-news-aug-14-everglades-giant-python-1-1.1362377!/image/1494122331.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_300/1494122331.jpg
University of Florida herpetologist Kenneth Krysko displays eggs found in the largest Burmese python found in Florida to date.

[Goofy]

http://i.imgur.com/wBLD1.jpg

[Richard Cranium]

:boots:

[Goofy]

video - http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/13/us/florida-largest-python/index.html

[Goofy]

:boots:

:shoes:

[Richard Cranium]

:taste like chicken:

[Hal-9000]

That guy's head is almost as big as mine :shock:


So what's the protocol when one of these bastards starts squeezing you? Turn blue and fake like you're dying? :lol:

[Goofy]

So what's the protocol when one of these bastards starts squeezing you? Turn blue and fake like you're dying? :lol:

Everything except the 'fake' part :tup:

[Hal-9000]

Look at me Ma! I'm squirmin I'm squirmin get a picture :lol:

[perrhaps]

After scientific investigation, the snake will be exhibited at the museum on the University of Florida campus for five years before being returned to the Everglades National Park.[/QUOTE]


Why? Isn't it dead?

[Muddy]

You want to see how many eggs my snake can produce and she's only a 7 footer and not nearly as wide as a python, so 87 eggs for a snake that big is excessive but not impossible.

Do you like baby gravy on your eggs?

[DemonGeminiX]

So what's the protocol when one of these bastards starts squeezing you? Turn blue and fake like you're dying? :lol:

Kill it. It's a non-native invasive species.

[deebakes]

http://i.imgur.com/wBLD1.jpg

:hitit:

[Bushviper]

Those "eggs" shown in the picture are retained from the previous year which would effectively make her sterile. The other 80 they found would be follicles and not eggs that could be laid especially this time of the year.

So, since 2009 all of the official Burmese Python Hunters with a license have caught and killed how many Burmese pythons???? Take a GUESS?????? The total number is 113 from 2009!!

I am still calling Bullshit.

[Muddy]

:hitit:

Nice catch!

[Arkady Renko]

I am still calling Bullshit.

well? did anyone ever pick up?