Unwanted Snakes
Are Hard to Capture
By Maria Delis
University of Miami
Beyond the weathered boardwalk in the Everglades, an hour’s drive west of Miami, the sawgrass and cattails looked like a field of wheat, swaying in the light breeze. Bill Colantuono headed for the shade of a pavilion, gravel crunching under his boots. He talked about snakes. “Once,” he said, “I caught a 16-foot Burmese python.”
Colantuono is a ranger at Everglades National Park and often shows visitors a photograph of himself and the giant snake. Many have heard that pythons have become a big problem in the Glades.
In fact, in Florida the Burmese python is now a symbol of what scientists like to call “invasive species” – creatures that usually live somewhere else, but for one
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