Edward Mercer stood on a dirt road at the edge of the Florida Everglades on Thursday, reached into a white sack, pulled out another sack and then, like a magician reaching into his bag of tricks, produced a 10-foot long Northern African python for a bank of television cameras.
A sister species to the Burmese, the Northern African or rock python has gotten a toe-hold in a six-square mile area west of Miami. Unlike the Burmese, rock pythons have so far stayed put since first appearing in 2001.
Rock python might hold clues in Florida about invasive snakes | The Miami Herald The Miami Herald
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