"You make much more money in real estate than capturing pythons. "

For most people, encountering an 18-foot-long python can be a terrifying experience. For Donna Kalil, who left her lucrative job as a real estate agent to become a hunter of the powerful snakes, it’s “a very exciting thing.”

Kalil decided to start capturing Burmese pythons in the Everglades after reading a story in the Miami Herald about one of the snakes blowing up when it swallowed a 6-foot alligator after a confrontation in 2005.

She realized there was a problem with these snakes, although she did not know how big it was and she turned her life upside down to help remove pythons in the fragile Everglades ecosystem, where they are an invasive species.

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