Florida’s first-ever hunting season for invasive Burmese pythons has ended.
In about three months, searchers found and killed 39 of the big constrictors. Wildlife officials say the snakes — introduced to south Florida by people who kept them as pets and turned them out when they became too big and strong to manage — are reproducing in the state’s tropical climate, and could now number in the tens of thousands.
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