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من طرف **كمال السنوسي** الخميس 17 يناير 2013, 8:29 pm

Deer found inside python in Florida

Peckish python: 16ft-long snake found with adult deerin its stomach

A 16-foot-long Burmese python was found to have a whole adult deerin its stomach after it was captured and killed in a U.S. national park. Thereptile - one of the biggest ever found in South Florida - had recentlyswallowed a doe the size of a small child. Skip Snow, a python specialist whoconducted the autopsy at Everglades National Park, said the animal had a girthof 44ins with the 5st 6lb deer inside its stomach. 'This is clearly an extremeevent,' he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. 'It shows you they can eat hugethings.' The python - an ambush predator - would have staked out a known deertrail, seized the animal in its sharp teeth, crushed it by coiling around itand then eaten the corpse, he said. It is the first time a snake has beencaught so soon after eating a deer, allowing biologists to see just how largetheir prey can be. Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the FloridaFish and Wildlife Commission, said the capture of the reptile was crucial tohelp prevent the spread of pythons further north. 'It’s pretty clearly one ofthe biggest snakes we’ve seen,' he said. 'We haven’t gotten anything longerthan 16ft in the wild in Florida.' The population of Burmese pythons in theEverglades has grown over the past several years, after being bought by peoplein the area as exotic pets. State and federal wildlife officials say thedangerous snakes have been set loose by owners after growing too big, orescaped from enclosures destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, according to theSun-Sentinel.

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