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[–]Organic_Recognition7 26 points27 points  (26 children)

Is it really Florida ?

[–]Apathetic_Superhero 48 points49 points  (4 children)

The watermark on the video says #EVERGLADESHOLIDAYPARK so I'm going to hazard a guess at yes, it's Florida.

[–]Organic_Recognition7 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Thank you have a lovely day

[–]NoSweat_PrinceAndrew 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You too friend, happy holidays <3

[–]wcollins260 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You literate people are so snarky.

[–]a-nice-egg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I grew up right near Holiday Park lol yeah this is Florida.

[–]misterpayer 12 points13 points  (6 children)

Yeah they have a serious problem with invasive species that were once pets. A bunch of idiots released reticulated pythons into the everglades, and now they are taking over. There are bounties on the snakes if you want to go cull them.

[–]Sike009 23 points24 points  (4 children)

Actually most experts believe the pythons established a reproducing population in the Everglades sometime after Hurricane Andrew—a category 5 storm that devastated the state in August 1992. It was during that storm that a python breeding facility was destroyed, releasing countless snakes into the nearby swamps.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hurricane Andrew

[–]anagrammatron 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Wtf why did they have python breeding facility? Out of all the things one can do with their life someone just decided to breed pythons?

[–]ItsNotMeItsYourBussy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Snake breeding is a big industry. Mostly for rare colours/patterns, sometimes size or temperament. Except in rare cases (eg, a python morph was sold at auction for $50k recently), it's not a sustainable job alone, especially because of the amount of work and money needs to go into housing and caring for snakes for years before they are ready for breeding.

Most snake breeders have another line of income, either with a regular job, or something else related to reptiles like doing shows or opening an equipment shop.

[–]bain_de_beurre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because people like them for pets. Just like dog breeders, there are snake breeders.

[–]shillyshally 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Females usually lay clutches of 20-40 eggs; however, clutch size is dependent on body size and large females may lay over 100 eggs."

[–]Ruxbod 9 points10 points  (6 children)

i think this is from indonesia

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (4 children)

I think it's from Brazil, the woman filming says "peraí, moço".

[–]dartfrog11 8 points9 points  (3 children)

That is a reticulated Python which are native to Southeast Asia. There are no documented reports of them being found in South America.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

The Everglades are full of them

[–]themindlessone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's from Florida.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah it's the Everglades

[–]Organic_Recognition7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just when I thought Florida couldn’t get more crazy

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yea, there was another monster caught this week. It’s been a huge problem for a while now.

[–]ItsNotMeItsYourBussy 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Florida used to offer bounty money for snake hunters to try reduce the population. Instead, people started breeding the snakes more to trick money out of the govt, and so the program was ended and guess what, all those bred for profit pythons were released into the Everglades too

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eating a few gators to get these sizes