A python nearly six meters long was caught in the USA

[Elderberry]

The Earth Chronicle by space · October 14, 2020

Florida hunters have captured the largest dark tiger python to date. This individual is 30 centimeters longer than the previous record holder.

Dark tiger pythons were introduced to America at the end of the last century. Conditions in this region turned out to be so favorable that now the hunters were able to catch a record-breaking individual – almost six meters!

Dark tiger pythons are the largest of all snakes. In length, they usually grow up to four meters, but sometimes there are individuals – mostly females – more than five meters long. Until now, the record for body length was held by a captive animal named “Baby”, which lived in the Serpentine Safari Park in Illinois in 2005. Its length was 5.74 meters.

However, wild pythons are usually smaller than their captive counterparts. The longest “free” tiger python ever found, measured 5.68 meters in length. Now the hunters have found a new wild record holder, 5.71 meters long, 60 kilometers from Miami. The weight of the individual turned out to be 47 kilograms – a lot even for such a snake.

More: https://earth-chronicles.com/science/a-python-nearly-six-meters-long-was-caught-in-the-usa.html

[catfish1957]

Dark tiger pythons were introduced to America at the end of the last century.

Bears asking.....   Why would someone want to introduce a reptile predataor in the swamp that grows to 18 feet in length?   WTH?

[PeteS in CA]

Bears asking.....   Why would someone want to introduce a reptile predataor in the swamp that grows to 18 feet in length?   WTH?

Probably started with a few morons releasing pets they didn't want to move into the wild.

[Elderberry]

Bears asking.....   Why would someone want to introduce a reptile predataor in the swamp that grows to 18 feet in length?   WTH?

How the Burmese python took over Florida

https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades

Native to Southeast Asia, pythons were first brought to the United States as exotic pets. When the exotic pet trade boomed in the 1980s, Miami became host to thousands of such snakes.

Because pythons can grow to such unmanageable sizes, it was inevitable that some irresponsible owners would release the snakes into the wild. But most experts believe the pythons established a reproducing population in the Everglades sometime after Hurricane Andrew—a category 5 storm that devastated the state in August 1992. It was during that storm that a python breeding facility was destroyed, releasing countless snakes into the nearby swamps.

More at link.

[roamer_1]

Bears asking.....   

Why would bears be asking that? Bears don't care.

[PeteS in CA]

How the Burmese python took over Florida

https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades

  Hurricane ... so it was Global Worming!