deep in the underbelly of the Florida
Everglades cold-blooded killers are on
the move invasive Burmese pythons are
taking over the wetlands decimating the
native animal population aggressive
ravenous and incredibly fast breeding
these pythons have no natural enemies to
stop them except man Florida has a
serious problem they ever grade the
fullest need all the native animals that
belong here you don't see in the snakes
don't wipe them out
to combat the Python invasion Florida
began a state-sponsored call in 2017
placing a bounty on the deadly snakes
our goal here is to get the invasive
species out of the environment
now with Gator season over some of
Louisiana's best hunters are stepping in
to help watch
in a primordial battle between man and
snake deep in the Florida Everglades
professional Python hunter bill booth
and king of the swamp troy landry are
going toe-to-toe with their fifth
massive Python of the day watch bill's
goal is to capture at least 20 of the
invasive beasts in a 24-hour window
see this hot weathers gotten fired up
the strike of a Burmese python could
take about 70 milliseconds three times
faster than the blink of an eye it makes
it crucial to keep away from its head
I got the team got the team let's drag
him out we're got this stretcher
yeah let him wrap her on the tree you
might be to get it hey want me to grab
it grab it
he'll I got a dictator he's coming from
you come on bill don't be scared that
was close yeah try and grab his head
try to fight me here he was rapping
alone me where he was trying to get to
my ring what we're gonna do is bring us
back into buggy oh okay we almost said
toboggan yeah
can I switch hands without him getting
rude I don't know okay yeah yeah look at
you sure lucky you was being open your
shirt hat yeah yeah that's it he was
close let's get walking back over got a
welcome back to the buggy that thing
didn't want to touch him I mean the
minute you'd grab him by the tail he
turn and try to bite you all he could
these snakes getting mad when we put our
hands on him did not happen and they do
all they can to get away from agenda by
this they make a hold man like me move
pretty quick this 12-footer brings the
entire team's total to nine pythons and
$3,600 another growing brother
money today
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