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.
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Capt. Jeff Fobb hunts python in the Florida Everglades.
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Our catch for the day: A female Northern African rock python.
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Capt. Fobb attempting to pin down the snake's head.
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A 13-foot female Burmese python captured in the Everglades.
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Capt. Fobb and reporter with a 10-foot Northern African rock python
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Wildlife biologist Joseph Wasilewski cradles a "Burm," as Burmese pythons are affectionately known.
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Joseph Wasilewski, Desiree Dov, and Mario Aldecoa with a captured 13-foot Burmese python.
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Capt. Jeff Fobb looking at mouth of Northern African Rock python
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Bagging the Northern African Rock python in Florida Everglades.
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Biologist Dr. Skip Snow determining the gender of our catch.
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Capt. Fobb and his daughter wading through wetlands area on the python hunt.
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