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.