Cooler Weather To Bring Out Snakes

Both voters and pythons turned out for Election Day in Key Largo, as two reports of big snakes -- likely to be invasive pythons -- were called into a state hotline on election night Nov. 6. "I got more calls in that one night than I get in some months," said Jim Duquesnel, a biologist working on a U.S. Geological Survey project to keep exotic snakes from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys. The reports were miles apart so they were probably not the same snake, he said. Read More...