I used to have, back in my stupid days, an all glass coffee table in my living room. With live rattlesnakes in it. Is the right word terrarium ? The wife was none to happy. It all changed when we had our first born.
Much later in life, my friends wife would not allow her husband to have his Black Emperor Scorpion. I took on the care for it. The Black Emperor Scorpion is one of the largest scorpions in the world. My friend told me they are not aggressive, that you can hold it in your hand. When I asked about what happens if it stung me, he said it is nature's inoculation.
What the frack, I did hold it. It never stung me and soon I was letting it crawl on my shoulder, and walk around. While shirtless. People thought I was crazy, or stupid, or both, .
I (the dad) am his assistant. He was python hunting long before the state started the python removal program. The removal program will never happen as just one female can give birth to dozens and dozens of eggs. A few years ago he caught a 16 ft 181 pound female that gave birth to 81 eggs.
Originally posted by LT188GT: He does not get involved. The python hunt is a farce. I will leave it at that.
I respect that. I was never a trophy hunter.
Still, after your thread was posted, I started to see python "news". I was not looking for any. The first was about a young man who caught one ... the new world-record-length Burmese python. Not in the Everglades.
One of my employees was an avid nature photographer and he used to go tromping around in the glades like that. He would often show up at the office on a Monday almost eaten to bits by all the deer flies out there. NOT my idea of fun.
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Within the next few days, we will transfer from nights to days. We hunted last night and got attacked by all kinds of flying bugs. Sometimes it is so bad that a one piece head to toe suit would be needed.
Of course it will still be bad but nothing like a night time hunt.
A nice little 7 footer was caught last night.
On the link below, you will see Anna catch her first Python. She gets bit (not serious) and a load of musk on her. Python musk on a scale of 1---10 IMHO rates a 20. It smells that bad. Python teeth are curved backward so contrary to what most people would do, don't pull back if bit on the hand. The snake will stop the bite right away. If not, just shove your hand down its mouth and then pull your hand out. Also in the video you will see some of the bugs flying around mainly because they are attracted to the lights.
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