As far west as to Naples and a few have been headed - heading south towards the Keys. They go as far north for example as the boundary between Broward and Palm Beach Counties. MAZZOTTI: The pythons are definitely concentrated in certain locations in the Everglades, but they are fairly widespread. For those of us who have never been to the Everglades, perhaps, or have never seen a python, certainly up close, paint a picture of this for us. The hunt has actually taking place miles from where you are. University of Florida is providing scientific support to the Python Challenge and Frank joins us now from Fort Lauderdale where the contest launched over the weekend. Joining us now, Frank Mazzotti, a professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida. Our email address is or you can join the conversation at our website, it's npr.org and then click on TALK OF THE NATION. Have you had a memorable encounter with a big snake in the wild? Give us a call at 80. So we want to hit your big fish stories today - not about fish, but about snakes. Approximately 800 competitors have registered for Florida's first ever Python Challenge. To confront the issue, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has issued a challenge to licensed hunters and the general public harvest as many pythons as possible between now and February 10th, and claim thousands of dollars in cash prices. And with has no natural predators in region, pythons present a tricky problem for the native ecosystem. Experts estimate there could be as many as 150,000 invasive Burmese pythons living in the Everglades. But in Florida, there's a python problem.
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