Anyone missing a deer?

[-King-]

If so, my condolences.

Anyone missing a deer?
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An adult deer was found intact inside a huge Burmese python Thursday, after the snake was captured and killed in the Everglades.

Contractors for the South Florida Water Management District encountered the python on a tree island in western Miami-Dade County, according to the district. It was killed with a shotgun blast.

The 15.7-foot snake had a massive bulge from a recently consumed 76-pound female deer, the largest intact prey ever found in a Burmese python in Florida, said Skip Snow, a biologist and python specialist at Everglades National Park, who conducted the necropsy.

The python, an ambush predator, had staked out a known deer trail, he said. When the deer walked by, the snake presumably seized the animal in its sharp, backward-pointing teeth, crushed the deer under its weight and coiled around it, killing the deer before consuming it, he said.

Burmese pythons have established a breeding population in the Everglades over the past several years, arriving by way of the exotic pet business. State and federal wildlife officials say they say they were released by pet owners after having grown too large or escaped from enclosures destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.

The snakes primarily eat smaller mammals and birds, with larger pythons taking alligators, deer and hogs. Although pythons have been discovered with deer remains before, this is the first time such a snake was caught after just consuming a deer. That allowed biologists to see the size prey a python is capable of taking, Snow said. With the deer inside, the snake had a girth of 44 inches.

“This is clearly an extreme event,” he said. “It shows you they can eat huge things.”

Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the snake was discovered by work crews walking carefully through a tree island to remove non-native lygodium plants.

“It’s pretty clearly one of the biggest snakes we’ve seen,” Hardin said. “We haven’t gotten anything longer than 16 feet in the wild in Florida.”

[bevischief]

Nnnnnnoooo my precious...

[SPchief]

Not a deer, but my snake escaped last month. Wonder what happened to him.

[Pioli Zombie]

At least its not a 2 year old chinese girl.

[Pioli Zombie]

That gives me an idea how to get rid of Cassel....

[Bwana]

Dead snake, Good snake......

[bevischief]

That gives me an idea how to get rid of Cassel....

:LOL:

[Buehler445]

Dead snake, Good snake......

This.

My god, This.

[Brock]

No, but a a douchebag somewhere is missing his "pet".

[BigChiefFan]

Lord, almighty. That's freakish.

[GloryDayz]

The front on my rental was no python, but it got that deer's sister just the same!!! Hey, the good news, Enterprise "picks you up", even after you jack-up one of their cars using some local wildlife...

[KurtCobain]

No, but I'm missing a yellow and red "igloo" water cooler.

[RealSNR]

What's with the blue tissue inside the snake in the second picture? Is that really what the inside of snakes look like?

[Dante84]

COME

NAGINI

[RealSNR]

Was totally thinking about making that joke

[Pioli Zombie]

What a cut up.

[Caseyguyrr]

Holy. F***ing. Shit.

[Hammock Parties]

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[Pasta Little Brioni]

I got a snake man. One time I fed it some beer...

[Radar Chief]

No, but a a douchebag somewhere is missing his "pet".

I'll take, "If Burmese pythons were native to the Everglades they'd be called Florida pythons" for a thousand Alex.

[SenselessChiefsFan]

Personally, I like snakes. I try not to kill anything. If I see a snake that isn't poisonous, I leave it alone. Or, I may catch it to show my kids. But, I will release it back into my yard.

If I see a snake that is poisonous, I usually catch it and take it to the mountains and release it.

That said, I am pretty sure I would just kill this one if I found it in my driveway.

[Three7s]

The snake is helping with population of potential deer roadkill! Seriously, deer that go onto the road need to get eaten by snakes.

[boogblaster]

deer yumm ....

[Jenson71]

The snake is helping with population of potential deer roadkill! Seriously, deer that go onto the road need to get eaten by snakes.

I'd rather have an overpopulation of deer, for hunters to deal with, than a population of gigantic snakes that can swallow children whole.

[Pioli Zombie]

I wonder how much Doe that snake is worth?

[Earthling]

I wonder how much Doe that snake is worth?

Prolly a buck or two...

[penguinz]

Personally, I like snakes. I try not to kill anything. If I see a snake that isn't poisonous, I leave it alone. Or, I may catch it to show my kids. But, I will release it back into my yard.

If I see a snake that is poisonous, I usually catch it and take it to the mountains and release it.

That said, I am pretty sure I would just kill this one if I found it in my driveway.

Where the hell are you finding poisonous snakes?

[KurtCobain]

I'd rather have an overpopulation of deer, for hunters to deal with, than a population of gigantic snakes that can swallow children whole.

Children that fucking snake could've consumed an entire Rosie ODonnell.

[Three7s]

Children that ****ing snake could've consumed an entire Rosie ODonnell.
The worst part is being alive while being digested inside the snake.

[MMXcalibur]

There are camel spiders living in Colorado Springs. They hitch a ride on planes returning from the desert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8DXzjvnzPk

[Pioli Zombie]

Here Cassel, Cassel,Cassel.......

[bevischief]

Here Pioli, Pioli, Pioli....

[Thig Lyfe]

Found it!

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[kchero]

Found it!

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ROFL That deer flew at least 20 feet in the air.

[Radar Chief]

Found it!

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I’m surprised that fiberglass body didn’t go up like a Lego explosion.

[Okie_Apparition]

SOme idiot some where has his chest puffed out, thinking it's the one he turned loose

[listopencil]

I’m surprised that fiberglass body didn’t go up like a Lego explosion.


No shit. I've seen cars just totaled from hitting deer. Maybe the aerodynamic shape of the the front of the car?

[listopencil]

My grandma hit a deer in a Pinto once. I guess she's lucky she didn't back into it.

[beach tribe]

The Pythons are eating EVERYTHING here.

[listopencil]

Come to think of it, it's rather disappointing that she didn't create cyborg wildlife when that happened. She worked at Dow Chemical when it happened. The chemicals should have made the deer and her Pinto combine into some sort of Deerminator.

[Radar Chief]

No shit. I've seen cars just totaled from hitting deer. Maybe the aerodynamic shape of the the front of the car?

Kinda looks like it helped chuck that thing out of the way. :shrug:
Being a small deer probably helped, might be a different outcome if that were a full grown 200 something pound buck.

[Radar Chief]

The Pythons are eating EVERYTHING here.

I watch several shows on Animal Planet and they’ve been talking about this quite a bit. According to the FL Wildlife officers they’re seeing a dramatic decrease in ALL wildlife in the Everglades. Pythons are eating everything, including gators.

[Valiant]

I watch several shows on Animal Planet and they’ve been talking about this quite a bit. According to the FL Wildlife officers they’re seeing a dramatic decrease in ALL wildlife in the Everglades. Pythons are eating everything, including gators.

I saw that also. Will extinct the local wildlife at the rate they are procreating and eating at. Then the next step is to find new food source.

What would you call the snake version of turducken?

[Radar Chief]

I saw that also. Will extinct the local wildlife at the rate they are procreating and eating at. Then the next step is to find new food source.

What would you call the snake version of turducken?

Maybe we should import an animal that eats giant snakes. Surely nothing bad could happen.

[Radar Chief]

While we’re on the subject, I was watching Hillbilly Hand Fishing and was surprised by how many silver “jumping” carp they run across. A model chick even got nailed in the face by one, put a big ole knot on her head that resulted in nasty looking shiner.

[listopencil]

Maybe we should import an animal that eats giant snakes. Surely nothing bad could happen.

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