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A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate nightmare buffet: two massive, neighboring nests packed with a combined total of roughly 120 Burmese python eggs.
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Florida prepares next massive python hunt as Everglades invasion worsens
The annual 10-day conservation competition is focused on removing invasive Burmese pythons from public lands in South Florida.
"After the first time you see one, you'll start seeing them, but you'll also go nights [without seeing them.]"
An armade of amateur snake hunters descend on the Florida Everglades to kill pythons for money. What could possibly go wrong?
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Florida's wild 10-day python hunting contest takes over the Everglades after dark
The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.
Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual Florida Python Challenge.
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