Florida Python Challenge captures 280 snakes
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Not a call it gets everyday, the Monmouth County SPCA removed an 8-foot Burmese python Sunday that had slid under the shed of a Freehold residence.
The rescue effort required assistance from a local contractor, who helped remove floorboards of a shed so responders could safely access the animal.
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Florida's pythons seem to skip Lee County, but experts say they're just too good at hiding
"It's impossible to overstate how cryptic they are."
Hannah Feder on MSN
Florida's giant pythons are still spreading then I joined the hunt
I head into the Florida Everglades in search of one of the world's most destructive invasive predators. Catching my first giant Burmese python reveals just how serious the problem has become.
Burmese pythons are scarcely recorded in Lee County, but experts say the data is a faulty reflection of the invasive species' actual population.
Hundreds of hunters will scour the Everglades for cash prizes as a key window opens to stop one of Florida's most destructive invaders.