![]() Kalil suggests before heading out: "Really, really brush up on your native snakes. ![]() ![]() Anyone interested in competing must first register and take a required online training that covers humane killing methods and ways to identify these snakes. Registration for the 2022 challenge opened last week. 5 and continuing for 10 days, those hunters (both professional and novice) will fan out in South Florida to humanely capture and kill these snakes for the state's annual Python Challenge. Native to Southeast Asia, these snakes were first introduced to the Florida wild in the late 1970s, and they have reproduced at an astronomical level since. These hunters are going after the Burmese python - one of the largest species of snakes and a major nuisance to Florida's wildlife. Their target? An apex predator known to grow up to 18 feet that hunts animals as large as an alligator and sometimes as small as a woodrat. ![]() Starting later this summer, hundreds of hunters will disperse across Florida's Everglades. ![]() A yearly competition will begin in August for people to hunt and kill the invasive species. A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2019. ![]()
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