A south Florida man who calls himself the “PythonKing” shared pictures of his latest catch on social media.
Judging by his Facebook page, Leonardo Sanchez spends a lot of his weekends in the Everglades searching for invasive python species.
Photos of his latest catch, a massive python, made their way onto social media over the weekend and they’re quite impressive.
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By the looks of other social media posts from Saturday, Sanchez had some help wrangling this 15-foot beast.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the largest python removed to date from the Everglades measured close to 17-feet in length.
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Sanchez will have to keep catching pythons if he wants to set a state record.