article_snippet: A Burmese python 13 and a half feet long moved into a Florida zoo yesterday.
article_snippet: The currently unnamed female python is on loan to the zoo until September.
article_snippet: A Burmese python 13 and a half feet long made an appearance at The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens newest exhibit yesterday that featured some of the nation's largest living snakes .
article_snippet: The currently unnamed female python can reach more than 17 feet and weigh 400 pounds .
article_snippet: Dan Maloney, the zoo's deputy director of animal care and conservation, told Daily Mail Online that the snake was 'pretty large' for a Burmese python but that she had a 'great temperament'. '
article_snippet: a pretty thing as can be said The currently unnamed female python is fed frozen rabbits that are thawed out.
article_snippet: A recent U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service study found that there are 150,000 pythons in the Everglades National Park, according to the Washington Post.
article_snippet: Although pythons can reach more than 17 feet in length and weigh up to 400 pounds, pythons are not a major threat to humans.
article_snippet: More than 2,000 pythons have been removed from the Everglades since 2002, according to the U.S. National Park Service.
article_snippet: The state even hosted the 'Florida Python Challenge', offering a reward to the team who captured and killed the most pythons in the month-long event.
highlights_snippet: The currently unnamed female python will be at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens until September .
  