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Invasion of the Burmese pythons, part 2

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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The Origins of the Burmese Python

Marti and Kim Penny have been breeding snakes for over 30 years. They specialize in selling snakes with a variety of unusual and rare skin markings. It's estimated that nearly 100,000 pythons were imported into the United States from the 90s to the early 2000s. A three-foot pet Burmese python might be okay but what happens when they get to six feet, eight feet, fifteen feet? Well, people just let them go.

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