198-Pound Burmese Python Recorded as Second-Heaviest Captured in Florida

A massive Burmese python was captured in Ochopee, Florida, on November 3, and was recorded as the second-heaviest ever caught in the state, local news https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2023/11/09/burmese-python-florida-second-heaviest-ever-caught/71506887007/ reported . Video by Holden Thomas Hunter shows the full size of the python, as it's seen almost stretching from one side of the road to the other. "It took five grown men to sit on top of this thing just to get this animal controlled," Hunter told Storyful. Local news https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2023/11/09/burmese-python-florida-second-heaviest-ever-caught/71506887007/ reported that the python was taken to the "Conservancy of Southwest Florida, where it measured 17 feet, 2 inches long and weighed in at a whopping 198 pounds." Burmese pythons are an invasive species to south Florida, local news https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2023/11/09/burmese-python-florida-second-heaviest-ever-caught/71506887007/ said . The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/python/patrol/ offers a "no-cost training program" for the public to help identify and report these pythons, "as well as search for, safely capture, and humanely kill these invasive constrictors." (Footage by Holden Thomas Hunter/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)