{"id":121154,"date":"2023-11-09T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=121154"},"modified":"2023-11-09T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:09:01","slug":"python-hunters-capture-monster-17-foot-snake-that-tips-the-scales-at-198lbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/python-hunters-capture-monster-17-foot-snake-that-tips-the-scales-at-198lbs\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Python hunters’ capture monster 17-foot snake that tips the scales at 198lbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A group of pyhon hunters in the US captured a monster 17-foot snake that tips the scales at a whopping 198lbs.<\/p>\n

    Mike Elfenbein, 45, said he and his 17-year-old son, Cole, found the beast in the 729,000-acre in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. Friends Trey Barber, Carter Gavlock and Holden Hunter also spotted the behemoth Burmese python and joined in trying to catch it. <\/p>\n

    "We were strangers," Elfenbein told CBS News. "But the five of us knew we had to capture this thing."<\/p>\n

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    The group of strangers battled for 45 minutes to subdue the female snake, with Elfenbein outlining exactly how they did it.<\/p>\n

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    "I grabbed her by the head and my son had her by the tail. We stretched her out across the road and Carter, Holden, and Tray jumped on top of her to try to hold her down. She literally lifted us up the ground," he said.<\/p>\n

    Professional python hunter Amy Siewe came afterwards to collect the captured serpent.<\/p>\n

    Amy said it weighed 198 pounds, making it the second-heaviest on record in the state, according to UPI. She added that it was "the fattest python I had ever seen."<\/p>\n

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    "It was more than a snake, it was a monster," Elfenbein later told CBS News. He added that the animal went from "flight to fight" and was a "formidable opponent" with "zero fear" of her opponents. <\/p>\n

    She told CBS News that "it was hard to comprehend the size." Using a captive bolt gun, which is the method of euthanasia approved by the American Veterinary Association, she killed the python. <\/p>\n

    The heaviest python, captured by biologists in Picayune Strand State Forest, Florid, weighed 215 pounds and had a length of 18 feet. <\/p>\n

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