A 15-foot-long Burmese python was captured crossing the road in Everglades National Park in Florida.
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Wth
Just saying, it wouldn’t have stopped me….
What a lovely person
@Barjee Actually you’re supposed to kill them. They’re invasive and bad for the environment.
@Barjee
It’s an invasive species.
Fair game.
Lucky he didn’t get a ssssspeeding ticket! 🐍
True but he was slithering under the influence
😂
The problem started when people were allowed to own them as pets. That should have never happened.
The ‘invasion’ was mostly a result of escapes from a research facility not a pet breeding facility, that got destroyed by a hurricane, you can come down off that high horse now 😉
@Barjee There are Florida python sightings going back to June 14, 1937 when Pensacola News Journal articles report about one lost from a circus. The exotic animal trade has been more prolific and persisted longer than animal research. The opportunities for escapes and pet owner releases much greater. It is well established that pet places sell cute exotic animals to uninformed buyers then they grow too big or require too much care and the owners release them in the wild.
@Barjee Other Florida invasive species due to pet release/escape: TEGU, IGUANAS, PLECOSTAMUS…
Wow just when you’re having a regular day on the road driving and then all of a sudden you come across a python
Pick it up Timmy, i’d be like… OK 🥰
Monty, is that you?
Run. It. Over.
Such a beautiful precious big baby … thank goodness this baby didn’t get run over…