In the press release, the conservancy noted the average weight of removed female pythons was 95 pounds, with the largest female captured this season weighing 153 pounds and measuring 17 feet long. On average, female pythons carried around 70 eggs, with a quarter of them containing the remains of white-tailed deer.
For the 2026 season alone, the team removed an additional 4,100 Burmese python eggs from the ecosystem.
Look: ticks give people freaky diseases. Deer carry ticks. Pythons eat deer. Seems like we should let the pythons have at it.
Some people call it natural selection, huh? :)
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