The snake, whose species is among the largest snakes in the world, weighed 47 kg on the scale.
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Joe Raedle afp.com
Two hunters have captured a 5.71-meter-long Burmese python in Florida (United States), a record for this American state where reptiles of all kinds abound, local authorities have announced.
The animal, whose species is among the largest snakes in the world, weighed 47 kg on the scale, said on October 8 in the evening the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the body responsible in Florida for the protection of the fauna and flora.
The specimen was captured 60 km west of Miami by two hunters, Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis, who posed with their trophy for a photo.
An invasive species
The Burmese python is considered in Florida as an invasive species, brought back from Southeast Asia at the end of the last century.
These snakes have found a perfect ecosystem to breed in the Everglades, a large subtropical wetland in the southern peninsula, including a habitat-protected national park.
According to LCI, between 100,000 and 300,000 pythons currently live in the swamps of the US state.
Some were abandoned by individuals in the 1980s and others would have spread after Hurricane Andrew in the 1990s. These snakes would have exterminated 77% of the rabbits introduced into the marshes in the framework of scientific studies.
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