Spotlight: Everglades / Reporters Weren't Snake-Bit During Python Habitat Outing

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › July 20, 2009

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A program to eradicate invasive pythons from Florida's Everglades began Friday with a slithering success: Trappers caught a nearly 10-footer within about an hour of setting out.

"It surprised us," said Shawn Heflick, a herpetologist who helped capture the snake Friday. "If you would have told me ... I was going to go out there (Friday) and that quickly find one, I would have called you a liar."

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Spotlight: Everglades / Reporters Weren't Snake-Bit During Python Habitat Outing

"One down, 99,999 to go," Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said after hearing of the ...

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