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Florida biologists remove 177 invasive Burmese pythons
Original: Florida biologists remove 177 invasisve Burmese pythons weighing over 8,000 pounds. Stops 4,100 eggs from
Biologists in Florida have removed 177 invasive Burmese pythons weighing more than 8,000 pounds in total, an effort that also prevented roughly 4,100 eggs from hatching. The removals are part of ongoing campaigns to protect the Everglades ecosystem, where the snakes prey on native mammals and birds and have become one of the state's most damaging invasive species.
Why now: The scale of the removal and the number of eggs stopped highlight the continuing fight against invasive pythons in Florida's ecosystem.
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- Florida biologists remove 177 invasisve Burmese pythons weighing over 8,000 pounds. Stops 4,100 eggs from · The Economic Times
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