If you hate snakes, you're not gonna like this one. A 17- foot, 140-pound, pregnant python was removed from Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida this week.
Not only was the python the largest to ever be removed from the area; she was also pregnant with 73 eggs! The python was euthanized and her eggs were destroyed because the animal is considered an invasive species.
The Everglades has a growing python problem since snake owners release their "pets" into the wild. Some pythons can grow up to 20 feet.
The Facebook post explains how the snake was tracked with "radio transmitters" that are attached to male pythons.
"Radio transmitters allows the team to track the male to locate breeding females. The team not only removes the invasive snakes, but collects data for research, develop new removal tools, and learn how the pythons are using the Preserve.
The team tracked one of the sentinel males with the transmitter and found this massive female nearby."
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