Burmese Pythons By: Eli Hernandez. Introduction: The presence of the Burmese Pythons is changing the Everglades with their growing population. Many of these pythons were originally pets turned loose by their owners due to their size and strength. Because of this, there are tens of thousands of these snakes estimated to be living in the Everglades, where they are living in a warm, humid climate and wreaking havoc on the ecosystems. Background info and claim Paragraph 1: The Burmese python is known to be a powerful animal and one of the largest snakes in the world. Their outstanding length of 23 feet and a weight up to 200 pounds. Pythons are carnivores and survive on small birds. The pythons have no venom but they have another way of killing their prey, they grab their prey, grab it with their teeth and then when the prey tries to pull away the teeth of the python dig into the animals skin. After that, the python wraps its long body around the animal until it dies. The pythons' scary sharp jaws make it so it can swallow an object 5 times as wide as its own head. Main Idea and details about Burmese pythons, CER. …show more content…
According to the article Florida's Python Hunt, the local animals that are being wiped out from the Burmese Pythons are opossums, racoons, bobcats, and many birds in this area. Tens of thousands of these pythons are estimated to be living in the Everglades, where they continue to live in a warm, humid climate. Because of this environment and the over abundant of pythons, the local animals may become extinct because there are no natural predators to kill the snakes. His 200 pound weight and his hinged jaws make him a formidable foe to all other animals in the area. This has become such a large problem that Florida has issued a python hunt challenge to control the