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FILE - A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration at a media event for the 2022 Florida Python Challenge, June 16, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

FILE - A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration at a media event for the 2022 Florida Python Challenge, June 16, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Zachary Chejanovski, an interagency python management coordinator with the Florida Wildlife Commission, holds down a nine-foot-long Burmese python during a demonstration of how to safely capture snakes Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, the first day of the Florida Python Challenge, in Everglades Holiday Park in Broward County, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Oliver Craviotto)

Zachary Chejanovski, an interagency python management coordinator with the Florida Wildlife Commission, holds down a nine-foot-long Burmese python during a demonstration of how to safely capture snakes Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, the first day of the Florida Python Challenge, in Everglades Holiday Park in Broward County, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Oliver Craviotto)

Carlos Hernandez, 23, captures a snake for the first time, with two Florida Wildlife Commission coordinators, during a snake capture safety training Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, the first day of the Florida Python Challenge, in Everglades Holiday Park in Broward County, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Oliver Craviotto)

Carlos Hernandez, 23, captures a snake for the first time, with two Florida Wildlife Commission coordinators, during a snake capture safety training Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, the first day of the Florida Python Challenge, in Everglades Holiday Park in Broward County, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Oliver Craviotto)