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Unemployed in Florida? Enjoy an adrenalin rush? Like to live life on the dangerous side? Enjoy Working outside? The state of Florida is now hiring crocodile wranglers, no experience necessary. If you are hired, you will be trained by the state to be a professional alligator handler. Florida’s saltwater crocodiles have gone from being on the endangered species list to a nuisance in […]
Juan Lopez reads meters with one eye and looks for snakes with the other. Lopez is a member of the "Python Patrol," a team of utility workers, wildlife officials, park rangers and police trying to keep Burmese pythons from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys. Officials say the pythons — which can grow to 20 feet long and eat large animals whole — are being ditched by pet owners in the Florida Everglades, threatening the region’s endangered species and its ecosystem