The Bounty Hunters Catching Pythons In Florida (HBO)
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- čas přidán 10. 02. 2019
- The Everglades in Florida are plagued with dozens of invasive species, top among them is the Burmese Python. A pet sold in stores throughout the US, when it gets too big or too old for its owner it typically gets released into the wild. When this happens in Florida, where the Everglades tall grasses are identical to Southeast Asia, the animal thrives, breeding in huge numbers and eating whatever it wants thanks to a complete absence of natural predators. On the heels of a viral video showing a burmese python wrestling and killing an alligator, the director of the South Florida Water Management District launched a program to hunt snakes throughout his district.
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Pythons threaten the Everglades' ecosystem, so in a very Florida move, the state has sent snake bounty hunters out to capture them.
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How much do they get paid? Areal you can yourself journalists?
@Ash&Misty Natsu&Lucy In the Everglades they need to be wiped out and extinct
hello hello - I think some of your stats are way off.
@@alan30189 lol if you say so
Don’t hunt and kill snakes they balance out the ecosystem for example if you take out a snake the eagles won’t be able to eat some things they need to eat then and it will become over populated with the stuff they eat rabbits will eat all the small plants
I love how they imply Floridians are inherently dangerous
Trash King we are 😈
I live by the everyglades and I can confirm this is very true. We are scary
Theyre retards
@@beyonduniverse5910 why are you insulting them?
Beyond Universe sounds like somebody’s gf got some local D on spring break 😂
That guy that jumped on that snake needs a damn TV show ASAP
@@huegrektion9428 dude.. Harmless?? Pythons are killing machines. Human killing machines
that thing would constrict around, suffocate you morons, and run while you screamed friendly like you were playing a video game
Hahahaha
Sure he'll survive the apocalypse..
lairdriver nah ther awful for the environment but they don’t hunt humans or anything
When she mentioned he had a computer job, I thought his job was coding in Python.
underrated
Cheeky!
Damn!!!!!
😂 😂 😂
🤣🤣
doing python as a daytime job and hunt pythons as a side job what a legend
nice joke
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Love that
"...even deadlier force: Floridians" TRUTH
Derek Derek you obviously don’t get the Florida man joke
Lol all Floridians can agree with that
"honey...fetch my meth pipe."
Humans are most clever at killing. Guess they gotta get these monster non-native snakes so that native species can thrive instead of being eaten to extinction.
Pill mill capital of the US
In case anyone is curious that snake would have netted them up to $625. $50 for the first 4 feet and $25 for every foot after that. With a $200 bonus for a pregnant female.
Bret Harley shit I need to hunt some snakes
@@sebastianalvarado2390 yes cousin
Thanks!
Damm that's business
That's what....at least a few cases of beer right?
During that group hug, that dude with the shirt on his head never took his eyes off that snakes head 😂
"They become too big to maintain"
Just like my ex-wife.
Ja ja ja you. Are killing me...
That was flipping hilarious
Best comment of all 🤣🤣🤣
Ha hahaha aha bro you just killed me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
dead
Probabaly find some politicians in that grass too..
I spat out my water.
*Kevin Durant*
I see what you did there. Nice.
budum ts
Damn right. They were cutting one open at the end of the video.
The way he jumped on that snake and slide down into the brush was astonishing. Wow. What a display of skill and balls of steel !
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😂 fr
Be quiet.. It was a python not your mama (mamba)
Also how fast that mfer is. That thing darted
The reason you have pythons in the first place is because some idiots wanted exotic pets!!
@@abdulkarimelnaas7595 Thank you! I have a snake and it's great to see someone defending snake owners here
Exactly.
And one day Florida will kave king cobra and other nice stuff, because of the selfish exotic snake "pet" lovers, so they won't be able to catch burmese python anymore.
Exactly. Ppl are demonic to release a snake into wild like this.
Pythons: "Im the biological nightmare of the everglades, the natives can't compete!"
Floridians: "Bet"
Nobody:
People from Florida: “DAGGON...LOOK AT THAT THANG”
Josh Prince 😂😂😂😂
That was choice . LOL
Hahaha
You beat me to it!
That’s just any southerner looking at something that amazes them really
Let people hunt them for their skins. They'll be gone on weeks.
They already do and there's a bounty out for them
@@jorgetamez8794 for the hunters of the snakes?
@@raafeekhan1078 no. Bounty for the snakes dummy
@@raafeekhan1078 lol
@@truesdemon1644 lmfao 😂😂😂👊🖒
"By unleashing an even deadlier force; Floridians." I'M DEAD
Sorry. Rest in peace.
Pythons are notoriously hard to locate in the immense stretches of south Florida wetlands where they thrive. They don’t readily enter traps, and their natural camouflage is incredibly well suited to florida. These 4 hunters in 10 years caught only about 500 pythons. There are hundreds of hunters catching them in Florida but there are 30,000 pythons. That seems very difficult.
Sounds like they fit right in, and people are now butt hurt about a species THEY introduced. I think Florida is cooler with pythons. Stop interfering, that's what screws everything up in the first place.
So they only caught 1 per month/each ? That seems awfully low..
@@Vote_By_Mailare you really this dumb?
Does Florida deserve this- anti science flourishing there especially in the past 8 years
@@Vote_By_Mailyou’re ridiculous. Shut up.
Have snake bounties, snake roundups, competitions; have python a part of the culinary scene, sell meat and skins.
Python skin I heard is good money
Their meat is really high in mercury
making bounties would encourage people to breed them and sell them. Especially when you're talking roundups and competition. Trusting government approved agencies seems a lot better. Maybe they aint making a huge dent in decreasing the population, but at least they keep bringing in results
@@mcaesario plus you dont get a bunch of idiots going through the everglades ruining everything
@@mcaesario Sorry, did you just say trust government? Lol
Damn, he just jumped on its head like nothing.
Gotta get that $$$$$
That's called the "Steve Irwin"
😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
White people craaaazy
@@thebestever333 😂😂
Python Catcher: They are animals, they are beautiful, we need to make sure they aren't harmed
Python Catcher 1 minute later: weighing the dead python with a forklift and cutting its guts out
Burmese pythons seem to lay the most eggs on average. They can lay anywhere from 20-100 eggs per clutch, depending on their size and health conditions and possibly their age.
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There’s a dude on youtube, his channels name is “Chandler’s Wildlife” and he lives in Florida. He goes out and catches the invasive pythons, freezes them and then feeds them to his 12ft king cobra, lol. It’s kinda fun to watch.
Matthew B i love him!!!
Bro he’s amazing
He gets given the pythons by hunters, he doesn't catch them himself.
Then feeds them to Kevin 🙌
rubles not true, there’s a video on his channel of him hunting
Idk if it’s just me but I really appreciate the respect and even appreciation those guys have for the snakes. It’s nice to see people who try to help there environment in a way that doesn’t seem like they have a blood lust
Exactly. We're made to hunt. There's a huge difference between trophy killing, and hunting for food, product, or to better the ecosystem. People act like we are that far removed from killing and eating our own food.
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So let’s kill house cats that kill 1.4 billion birds a year in the US alone the songbird is going extinct because of house cats
I would prefer if they'd just cut their heads off as soon as they see them 🤷🏼♂️
@@lukelang7781 Humans have no problem destroying eco systems. Talking about the need for killing off invasive species when we're the most invasive species of all.
0:16 Talks about pythons clearly shows an anaconda. I was like, "there gonna release anacondas to combat pythons, do they not have nursery rhymes in Florida?"
Same 😂
yea i was like ''wtf in couple of years you gonna have anaconda problem''
@@baris.ozkaya I think anacondas are also a problem, just not as widespread as pythons
@@handleonafridge6828 aren't Anacondas rare?
I am so proud of these Python Hunters they are trying to save the Ecosystem 👍
Nothing to be proud of. Bunch of stupid money hungry trailer dwelling rednecks. They probably have no idea what an ecosystem is.
@@georgedonaldson1516 you are the uneducated one. Stupid
They've caught 400 in 10 years. That's nothing. I've heard of one guy who caught 900 in a year. 25 guys is not enough. They need like 25,000 guys doing it.
And incentives
That's because homie also got a day job
They should hire SOUTH EAST ASIANS in some parts of SEA they're almost extinct because of over hunting. LMAO
@@akali6858 i think they do. I saw a video years ago where they hired ppl from this small indian tribe and those mother fuckers literally bite the head off the smaller snakes. the video was years ago but my god the video was crazy. Im actually going to look for the video and try to show you cause it sounds so unbelievable but it happened.
@John Smith I would fo it for 60k a year for 900 pythons . I'd sign up right away . it would be fun too and be getting paid for it !!
Coming to a theatre near you...
Samuel L. Jackson in “Snakes on the Glades”
Cut to trailer: Jackson, “I’ve had it, with these motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin glades!”
LOL
Don Kaper best comment
😂😂😂
"Group Hug!!!"
"I love the smell of humans in the morning"
😂😂😂😂😂
"Thermal drone with machine gun mount has entered the chat"
Possibly, although keep in mind that snakes are not warm-blooded. But there's another tech advance that's being tried with great success: male pythons are now being implanted with microchips that emit tracking signals. When these males are released and tracked, they're often found with females. Recently a couple of these decoys were discovered along with 2 large "mating balls" totalling 11 females. (Reported 2/21/2024 - Miami Herald.)
3:06 I swore I heard “Oh it’s a big 💩man” 🤣🤣
Thats not what he said 😅?
@@oshunorisha367 haha "its a big shed man"
Me 2 🤣
same lol
Damn so this is where all my highschool classmates went for college😂
They went to the same college ?
@@davehouston6528 r/woooosh
I'll take pity. Hes saying his classmates were all "snakes"
"Easy, easy, easy" proceeds to trip, fall, and dive onto the snake.
Pretty rough & tumble to get success out there
These guys are amazing, especially the guy who jumped head first onto that python
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Ma man that jumped on the snake, respect sir, you have the biggest balls Florida has ever seen.
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love the hairnets and box cutter combo
3:43 the yellin from the background just cracked me up
It's a shame this is necessary. I love animals, but it's important to keep them in their native land and eliminate invasive species.
Animals themselves aren't a problem, it's humans, naturally, these animals probably would have a very slim chance in entering these lands or water areas, but humans either deliberately or accidentally put them there. Thus it has to be humans to take care of the mess because we are the ones who made it. But I think they should hire more people around 50-100 minimum
Ash&Misty Natsu&Lucy Yeah, these things can adapt very easily and they have proved that they can survive on their own....
@Ash&Misty Natsu&Lucy You'll be sending them all the way back to Southeast asia, which will be very costly, plus adding thousands of snakes into an ecosystem where there is already a stable population can cause problems. It's like what we do with dogs and cats, 2 million of them are euthanized each year, because of human greed.
Ha you funny humans are worse and will make earth worse
Architeuthitect NOT necessary
“Florida Man killing snakes on a bounty starts having sex with the dead snakes”
I could see that as a headline in the near future & not be surprised
benjovi55
r/don’tputyourdickinthat
They’re already caught one guy having sex with an alligator.
"During hurricane after consumption of alcohol." Ah man I love Florida.
These Florida men are capable of anything. The question is can they stop deadly viruses from spreading?
Worthwhile endeavor. Thanks guys!
I love how they hugged each other.
No ones gonna bring up “daggone look at thaang”
Isn’t Florida the south? Sounds like southern slang to me lol!!
Thank you for your service
Please tell me we either utilize the meat or utilize having the animal carcass to further our understanding of these animals. I’m all for supporting what is going on here, my parents live just outside Miami, and I have been to the beautiful wonder called the Everglades several occasions. If we are going to support nature, I just hope we remember this is an animal at the end of the day, just like a shark, just like a dog, just like a giraffe. They were not out here to be killed off by humans, and I just hope we do something productive with having to use such extreme measures to protect these ecosystems. Sorry, nature guy venting over here!
They don’t belong here and need to be eradicated.
I love the respect for nature I see here.
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😂😢
Thank you for covering invasive species such as the burmese python and lionfish. It is important for the public to understand the threat they pose to native biodiversity and y'all have done an excellent job reporting. Keep up the great work!
cats do more damage but no one reports about them
@@samueldsouza8797 I don't think cats are killing as many different species. Like gator and coons for example.
@@tritchie6272 i agree but one cat would eat once a few days while a burm would kill once every two months. I just feel like people are picking on these snakes and blaming it even though there where similar snakes in this country (but smaller). I could not find any evidence for either being more harmful.
@@tritchie6272 cats kill any species of bird that they can. Billions of birds from hundreds of species, globally.
not sure why Raccoons being replaced by snakes changes all that much. Someone explain what raccoons contribute.
"Group hug!"
Dude. That's a _python._ Don't give it any ideas
These snakes are truly mesmerizing, with fear and respect at the same time. Very strong and majestic creatures.
they need to employ 100 people for the everglades
It's gonna take at least 3,000 to make a dent.
Lol send the national guard down there 😂 these snakes gotta go
10000
100 people for the whole everglades? Shit just get 1,000 give them tools and boats to use. Maybe do a documentary like swamp people make sure everything is run smoothly. Every person has a camera man with them and 3 helpers. 0-9 feet $75 10-15 $150 15-20 $300 take off the limits,laws,permits and licenses. Get rid of them and dont think twice about it.
Nah, they just need about 3 or 4 more guys and they'll be good.
"DOGGONE! LOOK AT THAT THING! "
Excellent work guys
The Python doesn't know it's doing wrong, just like us trying to survive
3:32 “easy easy easy easy...”
3:35 *jump over a phyton*
I’m more of a shotgun man when it comes to snakes myself
No way. Catch and cut. That is a hunt.
Cut the head, it's cheaper and more clean.
Python Cowboy is the Floridian I ❤️ watching 💯🙌🏽
The young boys voice when he jumped on that snake: Daggone! Look at that thing!
considering a female python can lay 20-100 eggs per year.... considering theres already a few thousand of them out there... removing a few hundreds of python a year wont make a dent....sadly to say.
Edit: I'm not trying to be negative, just realistic. Look, if there's already a few thousand of snakes already ...let's say like out of 2000 snakes, only half of that or even 25% are adults, and let's say literally the minimum(2) amount of those 20-100 eggs make it to adulthood and reproduce....we're still talking about an additional 1,000-2,000 of snakes every year....
Could be more but Florida is limiting how many people can actually go out and kill em
100 eggs yup but few make it to full size without beign killed while young
Easy 💰 tho
Watch the python cowboy and you’ll understand
The python cowboy
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4:11
Them: Has a group hug while holding a python
Me: Stressing from my kitchen in Canada
HaHa same exact thing but in Michigan
I'll stay up North. I'd never live in Florida!
Glad you guys do what you do, though! 👍
Having a reticulated python around your neck isn't the brightest idea
They need to figure out a way to trap them. That's usually the most effective approach. Traps are operational 24/7.
I was thinking that, make something like an eel trap just for snakes over a certain size.
Small ones would still get away, but I’d imagine that a bobcat or raccoon could get away more easily from a 6ft snake than a 10+ foot one.
*necropsy... autopsies are performed on humans. Everything else is a necropsy.
"oh wow, look at my big brain!"
thanks for the info
why do people hate on this guy now smh lol, people are afriad to learn something, i appreciate it, never knew this.
In English perhaps, these two words have taken the significance they have. However, if you want to be precise, autopsy actually means "seeing/observing by your own means" ( from the Ancient Greek αὐτοψία : αὐτός autos + ὄψις opsis), whereas necropsy means "seeing/observing a dead body" (νεκρός nekros + ὄψις opsis). And in Greece, we use the word νεκροψία nekropsia, whatever the dead body is.
Thank you learnt something new
Very nice post, cheers !
Great job guys !
"DOGGONE!! LOOK AT THAT THANG!!" I'm so done! 😂😂💀💀
"BE CAREFUL"
*Jumps down onto the snake*
25 hunters only? Florida needs 25,000 python hunters.
Very very dangerous jobs. For those westerners that watch this I am an South Eastern Asian living in Indonesia and can say that a giant non venomous snake is no less dangerous or perhaps much more dangerous than venomous one. There were so many hunters that die in Indonesia because of this guys
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Oh yeah theres a video on youtube where a guy tried catching a python in Florida and even though he caught it, it bit him really good and he was dripping blood everywhere! He said had it gotten his artery it could've been a lot worse and he could bleed out and die just like that.
"the next day" *new skin boots*
Considered a donation to the safe the Everglades cause .
And a hat too :D
Hopefully, those boots are made for walkin', because we know what the ocean is going to do.
What is the state gonna do when the "Floridians" out-compete the local wildlife, with no predators? Release Texans to combat the problem?
aro p no we send the Alabamians
@@Daniel-iz5kt Then we send the Texans when the Alabamians become a problem
Lolololol
Tf you talkin about weirdo
These fucking things are negatively impacting the ecosystem in the everglades, what is the problem in killing them?
You are very well spoken!
Pythons are now established in Florida and soon to be other states. These control type programs may make people feel better but don't do anything to control their population. Two snakes could easily reestablish all of the ones taken. Best thing to do is try and keep other animals out so they don't wind up becoming invasive species too. It only takes a few of them and some careless or stupid people to create a massive problem.
Trust me, with enough money to motivate people this issue will be solved in under 2 years.
For every snake caught give 1000$ and for big ones more.
@@yhegjddg438it's idiotic thinking like that, that will get people to start breeding them illegally for the specific purpose of claiming the bounty.
Countries trying that garbage with rat's tails found that out, the hard way.
One snake for 1000 Bucks? Ahahahahahahahahahahaha keep your dirty money
Yeah but at least they're trying. If we did nothing, the problem would be a lot worse. Plus humans have and can drive any animal to extinction if we are determined enough. Just look at how many animals that went extinct because of us due to fear, overhunting, etc. Plus with the amount they're paying people for catching pythons I have no doubt we can keep them controlled. Money is truly an amazing motivator.
@@chrisbgoodv2178not really. It wouldn't be worth it. They would have to buy a lot of pythons which isnt cheap and then raise them for awhile until they get big enough. They have to be at least 4 feet to even claim the 50 dollar base price. So it really isn't worth it. All that money would go right back to raising and feeding them. Plus its not like anyone can catch pythons and get rewarded. Pretty sure you need to have a permit and be registered with the state of Florida. In the video the guy said that currently they only have 25 contractors working with the state of Florida although that number may have risen recently.
She was a big snake, but I was at a reptile swap back in the late 80s when these 3 guys brought in a 24-footer; at least twice as big around. Ginormous.
Yes, yes!!! History says a pet SNAIL had been released into nature & it will eat paint off a house!!!
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Lmao that python knew what time it was! I laughed so hard when that man jumped on his head
The intro is everything 😂😭😂🤣🤣
That Evil laugh got me😀
reporter: "By unleashing an even deadlier force: FLORIDIANS"
me: "You mean floridamen."
“He’s an animal” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 made me giggle
Me thinking they're slow.
Sees one literally fly
*surprise pikachu face
A deadlier force …… a floridian . Got me hooked vice , got me hooked
When the python doesn't show up in court..
Pythons exist as a top predator in the Everglades
Floridians exist : I’m about to end this mans whole career
That guy fully jumped onto a 15ft killing machine, I really hope as he did it he thought to himself “I am, Florida man!”
3:28 Damn that old man moves like a ninja
This is so sad. I lived in Florida in the early 2000's and kept snakes. Reptile stores were everywhere and I was too young to understand wild caught snakes. I had Ball pythons and a smaller Suriname Red tail Boa (which was wild caught and only lived 5 years) but I was in awe when I saw a Burmese Python in a store. I can see how it got out of hand. I'm in my 30's now and keep fish aquariums but avoid wild caught fish. I'd love to breed fish species that are extinct in the wild soon.
Sounds like you're sorry they caught wild animals like snakes and fish. And sounds like you were clueless that YOU, along with hundreds others WERE the problem that came to this COMPLETE CATASTROPHE anhilating 90%of fury mammals in the Everglades which will soon be renamed The Not-Foreverglades thanks to your ilk!
They aren't native to the Everglades thats why they are doing what they are doing and it's good
@@logansavage9333how’s it good
@Tose it stops several animals from dying and ruining the ecosystem. Pythons were never supposed to be there. Whenever you remove or add an animal to the ecosystem everything is threatened
Did you watch the video? It clearly explains it. They’re extremely invasive and killing native populations
This needs to be its own reality show
It really is amazing the amount of damage these invasive species cause but yet again you can only blame humans you know pythons didn't slither here on their own and they're only doing what come natural to all living creatures that's to survive
I love how they wrestle & capture it just for it to be killed later😂
*Florida men kills pythons* would have been a better title
Easy Bert
C caymer LOL
C caymer at least they aren’t hunting each other black men
honestly theyre doing the right thing and wiping out an invasive species. do you like with invasive species, probably not...
@C caymer black men
Fun fact: Pythons ended up in Florida swap lands after a hurricane destroyed a lizard rescue. They then bred like rabbits. These Pythons are massive and have big appetites
Then ate all the Rabbits.
Fun fact: they literally said that in the beginning of the video 🤣😂
Thanks for regurgitating exactly what the video said.
They literally mentioned Hurricane Andrew in the video
I did this with my brother for fun once we trenched through mud with scuba knives on us. It was like an episode from anaconda.
They have balls of steel jumping a huge phython.
I had a customer who came in to my work ( I handle snakes for a living) and they were from florida. We chatted and the husband told me that before heading up to washington, he went into their garage to finish their packing and he saw a 20 - 23 footer python chilling in the center of his garage. He said "I seen the damn thing and turned around, told my wife and continued to put our bags in the car. when we start to hop in the car, the damn thing slithered off, he just wanted to check on us"
It's unfortunate, but when it comes to invasive species we're the ones that started the problem and threw things out of whack. We're responsible for fixing it. If you are upset about the culling of invasive species (and trust me, I know it's sad), keep in mind that by reducing the invasive population you are saving many native species.
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nobody will ever have a cooler group name than Swamp Apes
" Did I ever tell you, you're my hero. You are everything that I want to be" #Thankyou
"Easy easy easy"
Jumps on it
Sic the "Florida Man" on those snakes
Smithers, release the *floridaman*
Ive never seen a snake try to get away like that 😂😂😂😂
Good work fellas, saving the ecosystem multiple snakes at a time.
Release the CRAZY on them! It's Florida afterall! Seriously, these guys are doing a good thing.