Burmese Python Facts

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There are stories of deadly animals, being from fiction stories of them eating everything in it’s path or real life animals, like foxes and bears. But there is one that is just cruel, the Burmese python. The python has caused tons of problems for Florida. We need to make these creatures illegal to own as pets, and we need to try to kill them.
The Burmese python is a very deadly creature that is damaging ecosystems by killing nearly every animal. Most animals do not hunt the python, making the humans have to help solve this problem. They can eat everything, which means that they could eat humans.
They are, in fact, a grave danger to humans. They can eat any full sized deer, which is just slightly shorter than a human. Imagine what would happen

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