a very irritated baby burmese python. >> baby? >> yeah.s is very small compared to how large they can get. so he's not happy with this find because it's a wee one. he's looking for the giant ones. before he lets this one go -- >> oh! >> he stops by a local shop and sees a lot of pictures up on the wall with people and their encounters with pythons. you can see how huge these things get. he goes back out to try and find a larger one. >> look, look, look. right here. yes! whoo! >> nick is pumped. he's found what he was looking for. and like a man possessed, he just reaches down and starts wrestling with a large python in the water. >> brother, my brother. we got to talk. >> dang be careful. you may be food. >> after quite a struggle with nick the wrangler, he's exhausted this python. but not after a few strikes and near misses with the snake. get it up on land and tell us a little bit more about this snake. >> boy! you better stop playing. >> kiss for good luck. >> he did not get bitten by this one. he just shows you how much respect and how

irwin closed in. >> this is a burmese python. this is the one causing all the trouble. >> reporter: burmese pythons, giant constrictors native to asia became a nuisance in florida after 1992. hurricane andrew toppled a reptile breeding facility and all its pythons slithered into the wild. females can lay dozens of eggs at a time. and by one estimate, 100,000 live in the everglades today. some can grow longer than 20 feet. and here this invasive species has no natural predators. they're non-venomous, but those rows of teeth are razor sharp. it coils itself around its prey, squeezes and suffocates it before swallowing hole. this video shot late last year in the everybody glades shows a burmese strangling an alligator. >> they an articulating jaw, and that allows them to be able to eat and swallow just massive objects that you would not think that a snake could do. they captured one here not too far from here that had a dear inside. >> reporter: to these muss car eating machines, the everglades are like a buffet that never closes. t

he closed in. >> this is a burmese python and this is the one causing all the trouble. >> giant constrictorssance to florida after 1992. a hurricane toppled a breeding strand they slithered away. 100,000 burmese live in the everglades today. some can grow longer than 20 feet and here this invasive species has no natural predators. they're nonvenomous, but those rows of teeth are razor sharp. the burmese coils itself around the praey. squeezes and suffocates it before swallowing it whole. this video shows him swallowing an alligator. >> they have an articulating jaw. that allows them to be able to eat and swallow massive objects you do not think a snake can do. they captured one that had a machines the ever glas are like abu faye that never closes. they devour birds and mammals and disrupt food for other creatures. this month the south water management district launched a burmese bounty program. through may 25 hunters like irwin can capture and kill as many as possible. they also get to sell what they catch. >> i make a whopping $8.15 an hour. when you capture a snake anything under 4 feet is

burmese pythons have taken over where they do not belong. way to get that python population under control. there are government-sponsored hearts. and kerry sanders is in the thick of it in the everglades. kerry, roll that beautiful snake footage. >> reporter: this is a case of nature out of whack. biologists ne biologists theoryize that somebody imported a burmese python as a pet. well, the eggs hatched and there's an estimated 100,000 snakes out here. and some of them are huge. >> you can hear if a snake's moving. >> reporter: we're on the hunt for burmese pythons with dusty crowne. nicknamed the wild man, he captured the biggest buy thon in the everglades this year, 16'3". in slow-mo, it's man versus snake. the biggest danger, not the bite, but if the snake wraps around the wild man. pythons kill by constricting. >> that's a big snake, boys. >> yeah, it is. >> that's how we indict in the everglades, son. wild man. woo. >> reporter: what was that like? >> the easiest way to equate it is like wrestlemania. andre the giant versus hulk hogan.

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