It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don’t want to know. It could be scary.

We are concerned. They are competing with other animals for food, space, burrows, crevices and rocks.

The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.

People pay as low as $20 per hatchling not realizing how big they grow. In just two to three years, these snakes can grow to be at least 9 feet, so it’s a significant commitment

In their native land, pythons hang around wading bird rookeries. Our wading bird populations have declined because of insults we’ve done to their environment, and here we’re throwing another insult at them. We’re trying to...

That raised a red flag: Do we have a problem? Have people released enough pythons that they’re breeding here?

We can probably see control.

By the end of the year, they’re seven feet long. By the end of two years, they’re 10 feet long. And that’s more snake than anyone can handle.

They aren’t known to hunt people, but they are known to kill people.

I say apparently because the tail and hind limbs of the dead alligator were protruding from a hole in the mid-body of the dead python.

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don’t occur naturally here.

It’s against the law, it’s bad for the animal and for native wildlife. If you no longer want the animal, find an alternative,