If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.

One Florida neighborhood had some quick flashes of color slithering by their homes recently. Residents of a St. Augustine community caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes last ...

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