snakes in the park

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Three of 87 python eggs

A 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python -- the biggest ever -- has been captured and killed in the Everglades National Park in Florida. It was a foot across.

How the python population took root in the southern United States is not known, but there is at least one suggestion that the release by humans of such 'pets' may have been the cause.

Pythons have been credited with the decimation of wildlife populations in the Everglades. Rabbits, raccoons, bob cats and other critters have taken a licking from this snake that has no known predators and is capable of eating an alligator or a deer... not to mention the occasional child.

Slowly "a walk in the park" takes on a whole new meaning.
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