Video: Got It! Record-Breaking Burmese Python Caught

This female Burmese python broke the records for her length "17 feet, 7 inches" and the number of eggs she contained "87". She was first captured in Everglades National Park by USGS (U.S. Geographic Survey) researchers in the spring of 2012, when they followed a "Judas snake" — a male python with a transmitter and found her nearby in the bushes.

This female Burmese python broke the records for her length “17 feet, 7 inches” and the number of eggs she contained “87”. She was first captured in Everglades National Park by USGS (U.S. Geographic Survey) researchers in the spring of 2012, when they followed a “Judas snake” — a male python with a transmitter and found her nearby in the bushes.

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USGS scientists then outfitted her with two radio transmitters, a GPS device, and a motion-sensing device before releasing her back into the wild. The second radio transmitter was a failsafe, ensuring she wouldn’t “go wild” again.

The snake remained in the wild for 38 days and then was removed and euthanized. The information from this snake’s every move, each pitch, roll, and yawl was recorded by the motion detector, allowing biologists to piece together her behaviors, including her kills. Biologists plan to use detailed information about the snake’s biology and activity patterns to develop control methods for this invasive species.

Pythons are effective at blending in the tall marsh grasses that give the Everglades its nickname, “The River of Grass,” making it hard to spot the pythons even when they are being radiotracked.

Source: Record-Breaking Burmese Python (17 feet, 7 inches, 87 eggs) Captured

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In the late 80s I started investigating UFOs and crop circles and joined the CCCS (Centre for Crop Circle Studies) and a local group researching strange sightings and reports along the south coast of Dorset (UK). In the early ’90s I started my own research group called SPS (Strange Phenomena Studies), this was renamed in 2004 to Cryptoworld.

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