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Wildlife conservators found 500 pounds of pythons in a single day last month in Collier County, Florida. The 11 Burmese pythons were found on Feb. 21 in three different breeding aggregations, or 'mating balls,' that contained one female snake and multiple male snakes, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. This was a record daily capture for the conservancy, which has been researching and removing snakes from the environment for over 10 years.
Once the Conservancy captures the snakes in an effort to suppress the local python population, they are euthanized and tissue samples are collected to advance genetic studies. 'It often feels like a CSI wildlife crime scene in our lab during necropsies and we frequently see first-hand how they are getting so large,' Bartoszek said. 'We see the remains of white-tailed deer inside of pythons often. This should sound an alarm.
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