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Python Hunt

The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes. Catharine Skipp nabs her first python—and gets out alive.

Published Feb. 28 2010 6:16AM EST

galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-1_tlppzx — Wick Beavers

galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-1_wdp2p1 — Capt. Jeff Fobb hunts python in the Florida Everglades.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-12_qi3kfg — Our catch for the day: A female Northern African rock python.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-5_t0fgad — Capt. Fobb attempting to pin down the snake's head.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-11_zzaocn — A 13-foot female Burmese python captured in the Everglades.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-6_hypcqt — Capt. Fobb and reporter with a 10-foot Northern African rock python
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-7_tshnud — Wildlife biologist Joseph Wasilewski cradles a "Burm," as Burmese pythons are affectionately known.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-2_kxxadn — Joseph Wasilewski, Desiree Dov, and Mario Aldecoa with a captured 13-foot Burmese python.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-8_ud0gjv — Capt. Jeff Fobb looking at mouth of Northern African Rock python
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-4_vqbxnk — Bagging the Northern African Rock python in Florida Everglades.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-3_n1siku — Biologist Dr. Skip Snow determining the gender of our catch.
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galleries/2010/02/28/python-hunt/python-hunt-10_x2qqbt — Capt. Fobb and his daughter wading through wetlands area on the python hunt.
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