He maintains he's the victim, in part, of the public's distaste for snakes in general.
"When you come back to your home, check for snakes, " said Stephens of the homeland department.
He said officers also found 80 rats, which were being kept as food for the snakes.
The state will train hunters to avoid mistaking the python for native snakes, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) spokeswoman Carli Segelson said.
He disputes that interpretation and maintains he needs to show only that he can properly care for the snakes, that they do not pose a danger to the public and that he has knowledge of the animals.
They were tough-minded nonconformists. (At seventeen, Claire had burned her schoolbooks and left home on a motorcycle.) Their house on Magnetic Island burned to the ground, and rifle cartridges that Claire had kept for shooting snakes exploded like fireworks.
The 56km of rough, shark-infested waters and the venomous snakes for which the island is named usually put an end to any hope of escape.
We could not lightly draw water after dark, for there were snakes swimming in the pools or clustering in knots around their brinks.
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First imported as pets, the feral snakes vie with native animals for food and have devastated mammal populations.
He said they had also had to find homes for turtles, birds of prey, snakes, and lizards that had been left outside the shop.
Professionally, at least, Scrushy and Andrews have for years been as intertwined as a pair of snakes on a caduceus.
"The venom gland of snakes appears to be a melting pot for evolving new functions for molecules, some of which are retained in venom for killing prey, while others go on to serve new functions in other tissues in the body, " he said.
He is the third-generation owner of the Hinsdale Animal Cemetery, final resting place for 75, 000 animals--dogs, cats, snakes and even a shark--buried in or scattered around the Willowbrook, Ill. property.
For excitement it may not have matched the Samuel L Jackson film, Snakes On A Plane, but passengers on a Qantas flight watched with fascination as one snake fought out its own drama.
Martin Hirsch, a relative youngster at 56, has been developing a uranium deposit for Toronto-listed Forsys Metals Corp. in Namibia and warns younger colleagues about snakes.
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Though many invasive aliens are notorious for the harm they bring (pythons in Florida, cane toads in Australia, brown tree snakes in Guam), many others enhance the local nature scene.
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As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
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