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Wikipedia
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Wikiquote
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Wikisource
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Wikispecies
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Wikinews
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- Conservationists capture most massive Burmese python in Florida history (2022/06/25 08:30)
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Media reported Wednesday that biologists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reported having captured a Burmese python (Python bivittatus) measuring nearly 18 feet (5 m) in length and 215 pounds (97 kg) in weight in the state's Everglades wetlands.
It may be the largest member of its species ever found outside its natural range in Southeast Asia. Another Burmese python measuring 18 feet and 9 inches (5.7 m) was found in 2020, but it only weighed 104 pounds (47.2 kilograms).
In a search documented by National Geographic, the team captured the current snake in December 2021 by tagging a male "scout snake" named Dionysius with a GPS tracking device and releasing it into the western Everglades.
"How do you find the needle in the haystack? You could use a magnet, and in a similar way our male scout snakes are attracted to the biggest females around," said wildlife expert Ian Bartoszek, the team's project manager.
Pythons are an invasive species in Florida. Removing female snakes from the environment before they lay their eggs is the Conservancy's preferred strategy for limiting python breeding. When the team saw that Dionysius was spending several weeks in one area, they concluded he'd found a sexually mature female and set off to retrieve him.
It took twenty minutes of wrestling and three adult humans to carry the snake to a vehicle, in which it was taken to a laboratory in Naples, Florida and euthanized. Upon necropsy, it was found to contain over 122 healthy but unfertilized egg follicles.
A captured Burmese python laid against Everglades ground cover.
Image: United States Geological Survey.Pythons were introduced to Florida in the 1970s, probably by being sold as pets. While there is a history of individual pet owners illegally releasing exotic animals into the wild after they grow larger than expected, the destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 also allowed animals from a serpent center to escape to the Everglades and other habitats, where they reproduced in great numbers.
Since then, they have disrupted the food chain by eating local animals, including endangered animals: the stomach of this snake contained the remains of a white-tailed deer.
The state of Florida considers Burmese pythons a threat to native wildlife and sponsors an annual python hunt with USD2,500 as first prize.
Sources[edit]
- Associated Press. "Portly python: heaviest-ever snake captured in Florida tips scales at 215lbs" — The Guardian, June 22, 2022
- Tom Hale. "Record-Breaking 18-Foot Whopper Is Heaviest Burmese Python Ever Caught In The US" — I Fucking Love Science, June 22, 2022
- Dac Collins. "Largest Python Ever Captured in Florida Is Nearly 18 Feet Long" — Outdoor Life, June 21, 2022
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Rebecca G. Harvey, Matthew S. Brien, Michael Dorcas, Michael Rochford, Ray W. Snow, Frank J. Mazzotti. "From Pets to Invasive Predators: Burmese Pythons in the Everglades" — University of Florida, April 2009
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Wikiversity
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Wikivoyage
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Wikimedia Commons
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 29 (2022/06/29 03:00)
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Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 28 (2022/06/28 03:00)
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Relief of triumph of Shapur I over Valerian at Naqsh-e Rostam (ca. 241–272 AD), located in Persepolis, Iran. This carving depicts a famous scene in which the Roman Emperor, Valerian, is kneeling before Shapur I and asking for mercy. Shapur defeated Valerian at the Battle of Edessa, in which the entire Roman army was destroyed and Valerian became Shapour's prisoner. This was the first and only time a Roman emperor was taken prisoner. The Emperor Philip the Arab is depicting standing and Gordian III is dead at the feet of Shapur's horse. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 27 (2022/06/27 03:00)
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Ruins of the Syria Street in the Ancient Phrygian town of Laodicea on the Lycus, near Denizli, Turkey - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 26 (2022/06/26 03:00)
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Amber mountain rock thrush (Monticola sharpei erythronotus) male, Montagne d'Ambre National Park, Madagascar. Madagascar gained full Independence from France on 26 June 1960. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 25 (2022/06/25 03:00)
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Bohinj Lake in the morning, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Today is the Statehood Day of Slovenia. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 24 (2022/06/24 03:00)
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Ceiling of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 22 (2022/06/22 03:00)
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St. Clara's Cathedral of the beginning of XX century, Horodkivka village, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 21 (2022/06/21 03:00)
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Reftinsky reservoir in Sverdlovsk region, Russia. - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 20 (2022/06/20 03:00)
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Wikidata
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MediaWiki
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Meta-Wiki
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Wikimedia Incubator
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