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On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python ...
“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...
I’ll bet you didn’t know that there are “10 easy steps” to catching a Burmese python with your hands. I learned this Thursday while taking the required online course and passing the 15 ...
The ten-day annual Florida snake hunt is now underway. Here's what to know before slithering over to the Everglades.
The 2023 Florida Python Challenge kicked off on August 4 and hundreds of participants are expected to flock to the Everglades to hunt the invasive species. What is the Florida Python Challenge?
It was the largest Burmese python ever found in Florida, breaking a record set by the invasive species in 2016 at 140 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
Researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida used one of their 40 male pythons outfitted with a radio tracker to find the snake.
The Python Huntress, Amy Siewe, had quite a struggle during a recent hunt for Florida's Burmese python. At one point her headlamp went out.