Burmese Pythons

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Did you know that Burmese Pythons can get up twenty-three feet long and weigh two hundred pounds?
The snakes can also unhinge their jaws to grasp prey upto five times larger than itself. These snakes did not originally live here, until they were brought to America as pets. Now these pythons are negatively affecting the ecosystems of Florida. Firstly, these snakes are eating huge amounts of native wildlife in Florida. The pythons generally eat small mammals and birds. According to the article Florida’s Python Hunt, the pythons don't have any natural predators. This means the pythons do not have predators to control their population, which results in them eating a lot of the native animals to Florida. Now that the snakes are eating the local