Most massive Burmese python ever caught in Florida - Press conference 

THIS.

What did they say?

@@mizer9510 by florida law they have to be killes

When they start showing up in people's back yards it will be a different story! They can swim very well.

@@mariesantiago3960 People make comments and obviously have no clue about the topic. Invasive species can & do destroy ecosystems & kill off native animals in the wild. Where I live if say you are out fishing & catch a fish classified as an invasive species you must kill it or give it to game warden or facility etc to be killed. There's big fines for releasing them erc

Yes!!! Love python cowboys channel!!

Wondering what rock memebes theory is on the 18 foot python that just killed the man in Pennsylvania

Snakeaholic is another python hunter with great capture videos .

I saw a video of him catching a 17 footer

​@@v.dargain1678Good to know, thanks!

Thank you so much for saying that! We appreciate the compliment and your thoughts.

@@CSWFL leave the snakes alone, they keep the rodent and deer population down and they provide food to bears, panthers, bobcats and many birds of prey. Whether you like it or not they are part of the ecosystem now. I saw a 15 foot python deep in the everglades last month and it was the beautiful sight seeing seeing this great animal in its natural habitat. One day soon the everglades will be the only place in the world where these snakes will be found in the wild

@@misguidedangel6550 it’s there job dummy

@@Uncle_Rico576 pretty ironic you calling somebody a "dummy" and you don't even know what "their" to use in your post 🤡😂

@@misguidedangel6550 ahhhhh yes me such 🤡

I do not understand why they can have hunting seasons for them and eventually exterminate them. Thought people were supposed to be good at that.

@Lori W - newsflash for you. The trade of these snakes (to include all constrictor species) is what caused this mess. We need to outlaw both the trade and breeding market of these snakes in the United States. The vast majority of people in the U.S. who buy these snakes have no experience with husbandry of these animals. They very quickly find out they are in way over their head and then decide it’s a really good idea to release them in the wild. The Everglades is the PERFECT environment for them to thrive. They have no natural predators to keep them in check and a food supply readily available.

@@shawnawesome7770 because the everglades are difficult to navigate. Hunters will go out and try to catch rhsse snakes but they can't possibly remove enough to make a real dent. One female can give birth to upwards of 40 eggs at a time. The numbers are crazy.

@@georgeparker8198 I get ya. But a python BBQ sounds yummy.

@@shawnawesome7770 Yuck

they need to be used as FOOD. Soon enough they willl stop or run .

@@bloodyspartan300 u got be dumbest person in comment section.

Except the majority is not from a case of pet release. It's actually hurricane destruction.

Nobody is releasing animals.. It was one or 2 major events like a hurricane or something and it doesn't take long for them to reproduce.

They need to be feed to snake.

Thank you very much, Sam! We are very proud of our team and how well they can speak about what they do.

@@CSWFL That Gentleman speaks for me also...excellent details" systematically learning more About matting habits, excellent hypothetical guesses, and finding The Female's by electronic transmitter" just Revving conference" SIR!!

He has a voice that makes people want to listen. He’s interesting about has in-depth knowledge. 😁

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yup with even more eggs in her

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

Nature always evolves

Then.after two.hundred pound meal do the math

There's not even one that large in it's native regions. Just because they are new here, doesn't mean that they are just going to randomly completely change their species.

These snakes are perfectly fine in the environment they have been here 40 years probably longer they keep the rat population down

The environment id screwed if these things keep getting bigger.

@@undiscloseddesires6816 you’re wrong! The environment is screwed because of humans. Fight me 🤖

Rock mama kiss it

@@davidgraham7325 kill it

What if you're like 120 pounds?

@@bkkorner Appetizer.

Humans are not really on their menu.It would eat you if it was hungry enough I guess but...

@@jeffhodge7272 yeah. they won't really hunt humans but it'll still happen sometimes if those snakes are desperate enough. in my country, they are native here and we have king cobras to hunt and eat them. when I was very young and people weren't educated on how to protect our homes from these pythons, we would occasionally get news on television about them eating sleeping people or young children. so glad that we don't really have news about them eating people anymore because of better education but there is still news about them occasionally eating our pets and livestocks though.

@@jeffhodge7272 don’t even think they can tell you’re a human. They can tell you’re a big meal. If it can’t swallow your shoulders…guess what? You’re already dead anyway

I heard the military was becoming a bunch of twats...

Scared of gators and snakes? maybe a military career is not for you pal. Peace.

The mosquitos alone will carry you off😅

I don't like I don't mind snakes too much oddly but I hate monkeys alligators and pigs I think there's really not a use for them in the world and they're ugly

You should joint navy, sharks are sweet animals.

Exactly! I hate when they try and put the blame of all these invasive reptiles on pet owners leaving them go or they escaped their enclosures. Absolutely ridiculous.

Well releasing pets is done on purpose, a hurricane is not! 🤦‍♂️

@@rebelp311 yeah but you can't say that every invasive burm is from pet owners letting them go, that is just non sense

@@rebelp311 yes.. but a HUGE reason for the massive invasive species problem was the breeding facilities and not in fact pet owners releasing their animals which was very clear in my point.

Oh my gosh..😳

Humans… you forgot that one

@@gingerdavis2006 yes I did forget it. Humans for sure.

We're glad you stuck around, Christopher! We're happy we're able to get our message out there.

Thank you, Nick. For us, it's about the science. We don't like to sensationalize.

Although the northern pike is native to most of the areas where it currently exists which is most all of North America and Eurasia, it is only just invasive in limited bodies of water or basins where we introduced it for enhanced sport fishing where to our knowledge it didn't exist before but even then they are not sure in most cases whether it may have been eradicated previously to provide more space for species such as trout and salmon, since a lot of these limited invasive areas are usually surrounded by normal ranges. A lot of this was done in the last part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century when a local club or rich resort/land owner would make unilateral decisions about the biology of the lakes they fished on without consulting local, state, or local oversight. The key to their success is their very early spawn times which gives their fry and minnows an advantage over even their cousins the musky which allows them to feed on everything spawning after them; it really isn't the adult fish killing off the bigger bass or trout, but the baby's devouring the smaller, younger fish and continuing this pattern into adulthood - always a step ahead. A good one to bring up especially for fisher people like ourselves, but not really in the same category at all. At least they are tasty and incredibly easy to fish.

@@TCK-9 Excellent clarification.

This has been the story of nature since the beginning though.

Not to mention all of the invasive 'PLANT' species .

That's great to hear, Kat! Thank you so much. We're getting ready to start putting videos on multiple subjects out on a regular basis. We hope you come back to check us out.

If you haven't learned that humans aren't about prevention so much as adaptation to the situation, you must be very young and very inexperienced in life.

Hunting for them back then would be a literal needle in a haystack search. Majority of the Everglades is not navigable. It's only because there are countless thousands that any are caught now.

Paul Robinson I wondered about that too. But they get lead to the female snakes so it doesn’t matter if they have eggs.

That is a smart question my friend

Thanks, now I know I'll stay out of Florida.

They don't have a taste for humans though, they don't outright hunt us. They are ambush predators and may attack a person sure, but if they're fleeing and then striking you out of defense for chasing they won't go ahead and constrict and eat you. There's not much reason for humans to fear them, but yes to respect and generally stay away. Their bites alone are nasty, their teeth will shred your skin when they let go and will require you get stitches.

Ya and how many of these have ever killed a human in Florida? Zero. Now how many deer of killed humans in the USA? tens of thousands of deaths have been caused by deer in the US by cars hitting them. What about dogs? Dogs bite and Maim 1000s every year in the US and dogs are responsible for countless deaths in the US as well. I think we should kill all deer and dogs they are far far more dangerous then a python.

Any human that has ever been hurt from a python is because that person was messing with the snake. Burmese pythons never target humans. House cats are more dangerous then a Burmese python

stephen dacey 🤣🤣🤣

How you old & long you think this 18ft snake 🐍 was in the wild ?

@@8731GC they said in the video this snake was most likely 15-20 years old. Maybe pay a little more attention to the details right ?

So what.

@@8731GC generally over 10yrs

@@rockmemama86 fasho

Can you fill the python hunters in On a little secret

Thank you, Lee! And thank you for watching.

Thank you for saying that, Alex. We really appreciate that perspective.

@@CSWFL Conservation is the love of wildlife, sometimes these things have to happen in order to restore balance. Sure, a small population wouldn't do much harm but it will do harm and as seen, a small population can suddenly become an extremely large population before you know it. I'm jealous of your wildlife there in Florida, I hope to see it for myself one day. Education is key to a better future!

I like your idea of creating artificial microclimate to lure these reptiles. I hope it could be the solution to completely remove burmese python from florida.

@@cchris86channelyo Hi Chris, I hope someone gives this a try. To me the logic and I believe the science would support such a trial. Doing nothing certainly isn't an option. Just hunting them isn't the answer. I doubt eradication will ever happen but maybe this will help control.

And no natural predators to control them.

Thy brought in legally and your nobody to decide wat people have .shtfu

Like some people

Did you say "snakes shouldn't come into our country illegally?" Do you feel the same way about............................

@Mordecai and Rigby Huh? What you talkin' bout' Willis?

So much misinformation in this comment.

And may I ask, why do you have this thing? Just to be cool? Now you have heard the story. What are you going to do - will it to your grandkids?

Having hognose juvies who are a year old & only weight 30-40g, it's hard to imagine that big of a snake lol. I'll stick to my hogs who don't get bigger than 3ish feet for the largest average female & 18-24in for large males. I don't like something that could easily eat my 4 yr old son.

I have a juvenile retic she's probably gonna get like 12ft and he's as sweet as a dog🥰

@@roguetoxin5397 your retic will get bigger than that when She gets bigger u will need other people with u if you have to lift her during her enclosure cleaning snakes are so beautiful

@@PAS_2020 they will average 15-30yrs. So not exactly necessary to will anything. And no it's not to impress anyone. You love them no different from having mammal pets. They're just taboo.

Is she dead

There's a bigger female out there with even more eggs in her about to hatch them

​@@danbrown7224 But this one isn't, so it's still a win.

Lol, ferrel cats do way more damage to the ecosystem then some snakes. But nobody cares about those....

Reality only 10 would ever make it to adulthood

You'd need to catch one of these every day for a couple years to even make a dent. They've been reproducing out there since the mid1980s!!!!

Snakes are pure muscle that has to work constantly.

that's an excellent question!

The "trackers" are tagged. Hunters are told to leave tagged snakes out there.

It could’ve been an accident like during a tornado or hurricane but I’m sure there are people who have purposely left them out

You are right Debbie.how are you doing beautiful Debbie

Where are you from

These animals weren't let go the hurricanes destroyed a big breeding facility an they got out.

@@barbwilson6834 how are you doing barb.nice meeting you here

Turkey loads SOS

No you don't

How are you doing.nice meeting you here and where are you from

@@MichaelScott-hp6es I'm from Miami, why?

@@misguidedangel6550 I just love to know you better.I’m originally from Poland.I live in Nevada

@@misguidedangel6550 I’m a drilling engineer.what do you for a living

Big snakes are so sweet they need our affection and our love.

Maybe with a very large and sharp knife or a big gun!

I have a question I understand that they needed to kill this animal. My question is why in South Carolina they are breeding HYPER Timber rattlesnakes and COTTONMOUTH rattlesnakes to gather making HUGE snakes that are ENORMOUS AND DEADLY KILLERS. This man in SOUTH CAROLINA is trying to get SOME LAW PASSED ABOUT THESE SNAKES POSSIBLE SELLING THEM OR BREEDING THEM TO make larger and deadliest snakes possible. Check into this sounds CRAZY TO ME. What can these deadly BEAST do. To help the ENVIRONMENT OR TRULY CAUSE HAVOC on people. PLEASE AND WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS PLEASE.CHECK THIS OUT!!

He is going constantly to the WHITE HOUSE TO PASS A LAW ABOUT THESE HYPER TIMBER RATTLESNAKES AND BREEDING THESE BEAST. Also it hasn't been long ago a man in Reiligh North Carolina let a deadly ZEBRA Rattlesnake escape from his home and it is banned from our state. This snake could spit.. venom at least 10 feet at a predator and put their eyes out. This snake was finally caught by using a large sticky board to catch it look it up. These people who are so amazed and want such a deadly creature don't take in considerations of it escaping where they are kept and killing someone.

House cats are an invasive species in the USA they aren't from here. The snakes are good for the everglades

I think the issue is there's so many videos of the invasive species being inhumanely killed. Which most likely isn't what happened to this python but those other videos sure have affected the mindset of the people.

Misguided Angel You sound like a broken record.

@@misguidedangel6550 are you learning disabled

I don't see many complaints if any, I do see its sad but has to be done

It is crazy to think that Green Anacondas can grow to 20 feet, and weigh nearly twice what this Burmese snake does!

@@curbozerboomer1773 My stomach flipped when they said that. 😲

@@curbozerboomer1773 reticulated pythons are even bigger than green anicondas. Retics can get to 30ft in rare cases and average out at 20ft when fully grown

Our team is very experienced. Fly. While it was, indeed, a very big snake, the team knows how to handle themselves and always keep a safety first mindset.

Right! If they were a deer...

@@peforster6725 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FJWvTcVxX8Y.html

Thank you, Kelly!

Thank you, Cody. We really appreciate you taking the time to learn more about what we do.

@@CSWFL It's nice you guys appreciate people respecting your hard work. Keep up the Great work.

Humans are the most invasive species of all, guess they should take care of us too, by this logic. You can "love" that also.

The shark idea would definitely work

I love your plan, we could do the same in Miami, use Welfare Checks for bait and eliminate the Democrats!!!

Didn't DeSantis just hv a contest for catching pythons?

There is already a bounty on a lot of invasive species, plus there are yearly contests.

pu the bounty on those who transplant

Thank you, Dave. The team works incredibly hard!

What about the gators then? They threaten humans 1000x more then a python. What about the deer population? Deer is the number 1 killer of humans then any other animal in the USA. DEER cause tens of thousands of accidents every year. What about pet dogs? Dogs kill and maim 1000s in the US every year, but yall gonna buy this story because it's a snake? It's not cute and furry like a dog or a deer

I'm the opposite..I don't see them as beautiful in any way shape or form. I hate them.

@@deborahh2556 yes they are just killing eating machines that cause chaotic death to everything they encounter.

@@deborahh2556 That’s the way a lot of people feel. It’s the misunderstandings and misinformation that causes this way of thinking. Snakes want nothing to do with humans. They’re more afraid of us than we are of them. They’re not slimy, they don’t chase you and snakes as big as these pythons don’t want to eat humans. They want to get away from us. It’s not the fault of these pythons that they’re in the Everglades. Hurricane Andrew destroyed a building which housed them and some disgusting pet owners have released them. It’s not the fault of the snake. I’d ask you to explain why it is that you hate them. I’m willing to bet the reasons are based on misinformation.

My own personal tastes. I hate the way they look, and move, I hate the way they slither. I hate them period..my choice. A rattlesnake killed a beloved pet in her own fenced backyard. No, not the snakes fault..it was just being a snake. But I hate snakes.

There are Panthers in the Everglades & this Python can kill a panther!

Release some tigers, lions Nile Crocodiles and Rwandan Mountain Gorrillas.

@@lisaannrader9022 Jaguars eat caimans and other large reptiles.

How?

@@mooblink4ever899 They eat the native species, and they basically have no predators.

You are correct sir

I don't understand how and why there were breeding facilities, of these extremely dangerous foreign predator, in florida... those ppl related to the breeding facilities should be sentenced life time.

Except family dogs kill more children than all reptiles across the globe every year and python child eaters are 99.9% of the time urban legend and hoaxes.

I've never heard anything about anaconda in the everglades. 🤔

@@jeffhodge7272 it's not just the glades, and there's been a handful of anaconda taken out of Florida, but hats just the problem ,anaconda frequent waterways and stay in well hidden marshy and covered thick waterways underneath the growing vegetation and grasses that grow over upon the waters, it's basically like trying to find the invisible enemy, but back when this all started when these snakes/and reptiles were let loose into the environment due to the massive storms destroying pet shops and people's homes a large amount of pythons,boas, and anacondas were left to the elements and as we see they are thriving... I seriously couldn't imagine just how MASSIVE a few green anaconda that are about what? 25/30 yrs old now? as we speak setting just waiting for its next dinner laying in wait in some Florida swamp or canal right now... smh...terrifying..... there's there's few videos on you tube of some people who caught some green anacaonda about 4 or 5 ft who well obviously are offspring of them.

Oh no 😢

Think of how much the neighborhood cats have killed🤷‍♀️

@@rockmemama86 yup. That's why I shoot any that I see in my yard if I can get to my rifle fast enough.

@@rdelamadrid I would agree to an extent. Someone's pet.... yeah that's a dick move. A feral that belongs to no one but everyone claims is the neighborhood cat and everyone feeds it, yeah have at it. Someone's barn cats are actually necessary for barn life leave them alone. A completely feral population living in dumpsters warehouses, abandoned buildings, and culverts, yes absolutely. See when a cat is someone's animal it's their property just like any dog would be. Kindly keep trying to educate them on the damage they do when they're indoors and outdoors or just outdoors. We grew up on the farm and we actually needed a crew of cats to keep livestock and food stock safe. But I have persuaded multiple people who I personally know closely that their cats have no reason to be out, it's just you feeling guilty for having them inside. They typically say well I care about their freedom, I want them to feel like they still can run free. Do whatever a cat does. I wouldn't want to be cooped up in the house for the rest of my days. I care too much about animals. And that's typically when I say yes and if you really truly care about animal's and wildlife, then you'll understand that domestic cats are actually no longer wild animals and only devastate the natural wildlife around you. Yeah but they're spayed/neutered. Reproduction is only a part of the problem. Even if you feed them well they're still likely killing native wildlife because it's instinctual. You can't make an animal not have prey drive. Cats are even known to kill when not hungry, just to kill. You realize that one single cat will have a kill record of 300+ animals in a year even if they don't eat them. Even if you feed them. Even if they spend x amount of time indoors. Even if they are spayed/neutered. They don't just kill mice. Anything from birds, to farm stock like chickens to rabbits, mink. To wild raccoons, possums, rabbits, ground hogs, etc etc. They can kill things twice their size. They are not a bobcat. They are as invasive as the pythons in Florida and truly are even more of a threatening problem than the pythons in Florida. It's just people love cats because they are fluffy and cute even if they are diseased and feral people still care about them, even if devastating the entire world's ecosystems. Yet the pythons who literally can't freeze or become a mass issue anywhere except extreme southern Florida maybe just maybe in 100+yrs be able to survive northern Florida maybe Georgia and Mississippi. But that's pretty far fetched. All of a sudden everyone fears the spread of the invasion of pythons across the southern US because ohhhhh how devastating they are they're going to wipe out everything in their path. Ok so tremors was a complete fictional movie, that was worms not snakes. A single snake will have less kills per year than a single cat. Cats can survive anywhere in the North American continent, pythons can't. What should people really fear here? If the native wildlife is what people really care about. And not just because they hate the snake itself. Fear driven hysteria.

@@rockmemama86 just like you were saying that spayed/neutered cats still kill wildlife, there's no difference between feral and pet cats in that regard. Pet cats still kill. And while they're stalking birds around my bird baths and feeders, I don't have time nor do I care to try to figure out which is which. I've only got time to get to the rifle in the coat closet by the back door and try to get a shot off.

@@rdelamadrid I'm with you! Responsible pet owners don't let their cat outside. Mine only goes out with his vest on and NEVER alone. I used to have a feral population living down the street. Couldn't go outside to shoot them so I had a 22 size hole in the bottom corners of every window screen.

They banned them years ago along with a bunch of other exotics. The problem is the rate they reproduce So scary

@@Jessica_Costantini Talk is cheap, this problem is in emergency status and Florida needs to develop a comprehensive program starting with a hard core ban onimporting exotics coupled with enforcement and hard penalty for possession. Next they need to pay reasonable fees for capture and removal thus providing for a hard core approach to riding constrictors permanately. Also there needs to be a research piece that perhaps will allow for the snakes to be able to breed. It requires a total effort otherwise it is just bs.

whos your brother

Me too.creapy

Wildwood in the house-sumter cty. Im from bushnell.

As the tigers lose their habitat and prey they'll become more likely to stray closer to populated areas.

I pray tigers aren’t hunted and killed due to human encroachment. They have a life to live as well and are meant to thrive

Interesting. I’m so glad I live in Canada, with minus temperatures in winter..lol…prefer 40 degrees below

What did pay for it hatchling went for 600 n 90s

My 22 year old son and I want to do this.

Crush them unmercifully

What's the name of the documentary?

They can't eat a full grown adult because of our shoulders. They can't get their mouths around it, but a child is a different story 💁🏽‍♂️.

@@michaelbeck9282 That may be true but that might not stop the large snake from killing a full grown human and attempting it.

I cannot say for sure, Nick. We are not claiming this snake is the longest one found in Florida; at 215 pounds, it is the biggest by mass.

@@CSWFL Thank you for that info

You're correct. It was 20+ feet long, living under a house and venturing into Birch State Park in Fort Lauderdale at night to eat the racoons! Late '80s story I think. Edit: just googled it. 20+feet long and 250lbs caught there in August 1989.

I remember a story about someone finding a Nile crocodile on their porch in Florida a few years ago. Those things get to be 20 feet long and definitely they eat people. Also definitely not native.

They're found in all of the preserve areas. Naples is only 20 minutes or so from the closest state park/preserve area, it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could be found in the cities. Most likely they'll stay in the forests and swampy areas because of food sources, but it is possible.

You're totally fine up in St. Petersburg! Pythons in any density haven't been found that far North yet.

@@msmk1122 They will happily consume dogs and cats.

@@phlodel Yeah but they wouldn't like it

Hi Tess. This particular snake was found in the Picayune.