Gigantikus óriáskígyót találtak Floridában

This handout photograph, obtained April 7, 2019 courtesy of the National Park Service/Big Cypress National Preserve, shows a team of hunters with the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida holding a female python measuring over 17 feet in length and weighing 140 pounds with 73 developing eggs. The group, who published the photograph April 4, 2019, say the catch sets a new record, the largest python ever removed from the Big Cypress National Preserve. - Researchers in Florida using a new approach to combating a destructive invasion by enormous pythons have captured one of the biggest ever, a 17-foot-long (5.2 meters) specimen large enough to eat a deer, they said. The female snake is longer than a one-story building is high, and weighs 140 pounds (64 kilograms). It is one of the biggest pythons ever caught in southern Florida, according to a post on the Facebook page of the Big Cypress National Preserve. The researchers found the enormous reptile by using male pythons fitted with radio transmitters, allowing them to track the male and locate breeding females, according to the post. (Photo by Handout / NATIONAL PARK SERVICE / AFP) / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO / National Park Service/ Big Cypress National Preserve" / NO MARKETING / NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==

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