6/10/2023 0 Comments Picture of a boa constrictor![]() ![]() Snake hunters swarm 'Florida Python Challenge': Top photos of annual 'removal competition' Video captures apparent wrongful death of a boa ![]() Watch: This is one way to stop traffic! Massive 15-foot-long python blocks entire Florida road. "I don't like that they shot them in the head," said Coffee, who witnessed the first death before leaving the room. However, Chris Coffee, who owned the pythons that were euthanized, told a tangled version of events late Tuesday afternoon that began with FWC officers issuing him citations in February 2022 and ended Thursday with snake blood and feces on the warehouse floor. McAdam owned his pet boa constrictor, named Big Shirl, for more than a decade.įWC issued a statement on Tuesday about the hours-long euthanasia incident, but didn't go into detail about what happened and didn't mention the boa constrictor that was mistakenly killed. Pythons are a damaging invasive species that eat almost anything and have overrun the Everglades. After the reptile was added to a list of prohibited species by FWC commissioners in February 2021, commercial breeders were given about five months to get rid of their animals.īoa constrictors are not on the list of prohibited species. ![]() Florida wildlife officers killed dozens of caged pythons, and one pet boa constrictor by mistake, in what some reptile enthusiasts say was an overreach of authority last week.īill McAdam, whose Broward County warehouse is where the snakes lived, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers killed 34 Burmese and reticulated pythons on Thursday with a bolt gun that is supposed to deliver immediate and lethal blows to the snakes' heads. ![]()
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