Now it's dark and they cant see but the camera man's lights are on. May 31, 2018 at 10:00 am. By implanting radio transmitters and then letting them play hide and seek, these males expose the location of breeding females. I dont understand why they dont use some type of gripper about 3 feet long to grab the head and control the snake quickly. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting. I just think we should all be clear about what's really going on. Theyre like, Whatever you do, just keep them from getting up here. As Koehler says this, a small papillon dog skitters across the waiting room floor. Wow. On a Thursday afternoon in St Petersburg, Florida, Beth Koehler crouches over a cairn terrier named Ginger, trimming intently as fur collects around her feet. A 2016 round-up brought in 106. Ending every snake you see then also necessitates the use of potentially hundreds of man hours manually eradicating rodents (laying traps/the use of pesticides) and that can also directly negatively impact an entire ecosystem of animals that are dependent on rodents as prey. Other measures have included training dogs to sniff out the snakes, employing amorous male pythons known as Judas snakes to lead hunters to egg-laying females and even hiring chanting tribesmen from India. There is a terrible monster roaming the Everglades. Answer (1 of 7): Many are captured alive and turned over to scientists for examination. "Everyone has their little pieces of the pie. Invasive Burmese pythons have officially been sighted making their way north in Florida, following years of speculation. But the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has an issue with the way this particular python was killed. It's still worth it to try and do better.". Snakes are just as afraid of us as we tend to be of them; were big scary giants in their eyes so they would rather avoid a confrontation just the same as we would. 0:58. Pythons have been slithering through the Everglades since the 1980s when some were released into the wild as overgrown pets. Brandon Call grabbed the $1,500 award for the longest snake with a 15-foot-9 specimen, and, yes, he got a skin too.