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ANUARY For tickets and group discounts call Broward Center’s AutoNation Box Office 17-J at 954.462.0222 or visit BrowardCenter.org ANUARY 23, 2013 23, Follow us: BrowardCenter Experience the new all-inclusive CLUB LEVEL at the Broward Center! 954-640-CLUB (2582) | BrowardCenter.org/ClubLevel All programs, artists, dates and times are subject to change. 3 | NEWS | SNAKE CHARMERS 2013 Python Challenge: Few invasive reptiles, browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com plenty of TV crews. BY KYLE SWENSON TS | TS others believe Hurricane Andrew might have N nee-deep in muddy wa- released a large number from pet shops into TE ter, Jimmy Ferguson N the wild. Either way, just more than a decade O swings a homemade ago, these pythons began wreaking havoc on C piece of bent metal the local ecosystem. Kthrough the depths. With the The snakes average 16 feet in length and will eat virtually anything. Last January, a report by PULP | midday sun beating down, the gangly ginger is sweating through the U.S. Geological Survey showed pythons had dropped raccoon and opossum populations by his camo shirt and matching 99 percent in the park. There were no rabbits safari hat. He carefully scans the or foxes left in the area. Without any natural | NEWS | | NEWS predators, meanwhile, the snake’s population Y surface, reading twitches in the has ballooned; the latest estimates put the DA current for signs of life slithering number at 100,000 slithering in the park. below. With schools of fish dart- Enter the 2013 Python Challenge. Between Mike Gorman ing through the pool, he knows January 12 and February 10, the state has he’s standing in the middle of a thrown open the gates of the Everglades to any- one with $25 and a jones for python hunting. do it. And you have danger.” Thirty minutes later, the hunt adds up to GE | NIGHT+ natural habitat for predators. When the last whistle blows, the hunter with Ardezzone has sunk $15,000 of his own nothing. With the afternoon winding down, A T the most notches in his or her belt lands $1,500.