It is legal to shoot Burmese pythons in Florida if the location ans specific area regulations allow it.
However in the Everglades you cannot shoot a Burmese Python unless you have no other choice.
But to simply hunt them to kill then you must capture them and humanely kill them through CO2 chambers or euthanasia.
No permit is needed although traps and firearms cannot be used to kill the Burmese pythons or other pythons in Florida unless the certain area regulations allow it.
Burmese pythons are not protected in Florida, except under the anti cruelty law and many tools are available and legal to use to humanely kill the pythons during the event.
In Florida you can humanely kill Burmese pythons on your own private land or on other private land with the landowners permission and also on certain public lands that are managed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and no license or permit is needed on the designated public lands or private land.
In fact the FWC actually encourages the public to capture and humanely kill the Burmese pythons whenever it's possible to do so.
You can shoot Burmese pythons in Florida if you come into contact with them on private land or when you come into contact with them and they are about to bite or are threatening you.
However if you're just hunting and trapping the Burmese pythons they must be killed humanely and not by shooting them.
No permit or hunting license is required to hunt the Burmese Pythons on private land or 32 commission managed lands in South Florida.
The FWC encourages the public to remove and to humanely kill any pythons including Burmese pythons when safe to do so and when possible.
Live transport of the pythons or Burmese pythons is not allowed and they must be euthanized before being transported and done so humanely.
When pythons including Burmese pythons are caught in the Everglades they are humanely euthanized and often by professional hunters or contractors.
The pythons carcasses may also be used for data collection, research or even disposed of in landfills or by other methods, but are not often used as food because of concerns about mercury.
Florida law also requires that any Burmese pythons that are caught be humanely euthanized, using methods like injections or CO2 chambers.
And the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the South Florida Water management District also employ python removal agents that are authorized to transport and capture pythons to be euthanized.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also encourages the public to capture and humanely kill the pythons on private lands and even on some Commission managed lands.
The amount of pythons that are in the Everglades is tens of thousands of pythons.
Burmese pythons are common in the Everglades National Park and because of their ability to hide and camouflage themselves, it's pretty difficult to pinpoint an exact number of them.
It's estimated that there are around 100,000 pythons or Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Just like other pythons, Burmese pythons are not venomous and are instead constrictor snakes.
Burmese pythons can cause painful bites using their sharp teeth, but they don't inject venom, because they kill their prey by suffocating it through constriction instead of venom.
A python squeeze is pretty strong but not overly strong and larger pythons can exert a squeeze in pressures of over 50 kPa.
The squeeze of a python is not about crushing bones, but instead is about suffocating their prey by tightening their coils around them with each exhale.
The actual force exerted by the python varies but it's enough to cause internal bleeding and even incapacitate prey and cause internal damage.
Many pythons squeeze with a pressure of just under 6 psi during constriction.
It's a myth that the python squeezes their prey until they can't breathe anymore.
The bite force of a python in PSI is 14 PSI or pounds per square inch.
The 14 PSI of bite force from a python is generated when the python snake bites and coils around it's prey, and uses it's 100 rear facing teeth to latch onto and constrict what it is biting on.
It might not seem like a lot of force when compared to some other animals, but the 14 PSI bite force of a python snake is enough to subdue and kill prey, which also includes humans.
Python snakes are a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family that is native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere.
The name Python for Python snakes was also proposed by Francois Marie Daudin in 1803 for non venomous flecked snakes.
Currently there are 10 species of python snakes that are recognized as valid taxa.
The python snake is also known as Pythonidae, are a family of non venomous snakes that are found in Australia, Asia and Africa.
While they are non venomous the python can still bite and cause pain.
Pythons are constrictors and instead of venom the python relies on constriction to subdue it's prey.
Pythons don't possess any venom glands or fangs to inject any venom into their prey or other potential threats.