One other i can think of is when we were on vacation in Marco Island Florida a couple years ago. We were driving across the Everglades to go to a baseball came in Miami (think it was like a 2.5 hour drive across from the Gulf Coast). I ask the hotel where I could find one of those tours to see the alligators on the way there. They tell me, don't bother with the tour and spending money, and once I was on the Tamiami Highway i could turn off at a certain road and to drive up the dirt road for a few minutes and there would be huge gators everywhere in the water and lying on the banks but do not in any circumstances get out of my car. So we start up this dirtroad, which looks like it was in the movie Deliverance, and sure enough there's gators everywhere. Hissing and charging at our car (I didn't really care as it was a rental). I decide i'm going to go up a bit further than turn around and head back to the highway to Miami. I see what I think is a big tree in the road and I look to my wide and say that it's going to be a pain to turn around because of that tree. She looks back at me and says "That tree is moving". So I pull up a little closer, and I realize this isn't a tree, this is a Bermese Python which apparently is now becoming a nuissance in the Everglades because some people started dumping their pets their when they got too big and the Everglades are an ideal environment for a Bermese Python. Anyways, freaks me the hell out as I hate snakes, I get a few pictures, of what I estimate was a 16 to 18ft snake, and leave. I tell the concierge at the hotel when I get back the next day and she tells me I should report this to Florida Game and Wildlife, which I did. I ended up having to fill out a bunch of reports and send them my pictures so they could confirm it was a Bermese Python (which they did). Apparently they go out and try and destroy all these Pythons as they are growing rapidly in population and disturb the environment greatly as they are now the apex predator over the gators.
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