Giant python caught in Everglades

[Bucksnbows]

The largest captured to date. 
 

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[BHC]

That's what she says !!!

[2-Stroke]

Why are they capturing these things? They should be illegal to handle alive. 
 

Florida needs a python jamboree. Get some sponsors, give away a truck, sxs, prize money, make this an big annual event. Not $2500 total prizes. No living snakes should count. Leave the body. Just bring in heads. 
 

I see it says biologist captured it for this particular one with a radio collared male snake to lead them to it. ‘Researches wrestled the snake for 20 minutes before finally surrendering’. Why not just shoot it? They don’t fight to well then. It’s been autopsy and found 122 eggs and deer hooves. Why waste time and risk injury? 

[Bucksnbows]

6 minutes ago, 2-Stroke said:

Why are they capturing these things? They should be illegal to handle alive. 
 

Florida needs a python jamboree. Get some sponsors, give away a truck, sxs, prize money, make this an big annual event. Not $2500 total prizes. No living snakes should count. Leave the body. Just bring in heads. 
 

I see it says biologist captured it for this particular one with a radio collared male snake to lead them to it. ‘Researches wrestled the snake for 20 minutes before finally surrendering’. Why not just shoot it? They don’t fight to well then. It’s been autopsy and found 122 eggs and deer hooves. Why waste time and risk injury? 

The reason they don't just shoot them is that they sell the meat and they sell the tanned hides.  Shooting them destroys both.  Also, they need to be placed on ice (the meat) once killed or it will spoil.  That can't happen when you're miles from civilization in the heat of the Everglades.  As for the radio transmitters on male snakes, that is common practice.  Those males lead the crews to the gravid females where the real problem can  be addressed, more eggs being laid.  I have installed PIT tags (transmitters) in lake trout in Lake Yellowstone where they swim to the best spawning grounds.  Once those areas are known to scientists, they brought in gill nets to eradicate or greatly reduce illegally stocked lake trout to restore the native Yellowstone cutthroat trout.  It's a common practice to eliminate the problem.   

[MGHunter66]

Damn, big snake. 

[Greybeard]

wouldn't want to be hugged by one

[jumpthestring]

6 hours ago, Bucksnbows said:

The reason they don't just shoot them is that they sell the meat and they sell the tanned hides.  Shooting them destroys both.  Also, they need to be placed on ice (the meat) once killed or it will spoil.  That can't happen when you're miles from civilization in the heat of the Everglades.  As for the radio transmitters on male snakes, that is common practice.  Those males lead the crews to the gravid females where the real problem can  be addressed, more eggs being laid.  I have installed PIT tags (transmitters) in lake trout in Lake Yellowstone where they swim to the best spawning grounds.  Once those areas are known to scientists, they brought in gill nets to eradicate or greatly reduce illegally stocked lake trout to restore the native Yellowstone cutthroat trout.  It's a common practice to eliminate the problem.   

If they don't shoot them . How do they euthanize them just curious.

[Bucksnbows]

3 minutes ago, jumpthestring said:

If they don't shoot them . How do they euthanize them just curious.

That I don’t know. 

[Rusty]

That's a big snake.  

[Buck154]

That's a big one for sure

[JD48]

I've shot deer smaller than that

[electricstart]

43 minutes ago, JD48 said:

I've shot deer smaller than that

Most of my deer smaller than that . Big snake