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Everything was fine until Mike Richey, 13, tried to yell for help. That's when the snake wrapped itself around Mike's chest and squeezed. John Griner, 14, sped to the rescue. What the two Hialeah eighth graders stuffed into their burlap bag was a squirming 14-foot anaconda.
8/5/2011
Album ID: 1298257
Birds of Florida
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Florida's amazing bird population and its protection has fascinated and concerned observers since ornithologist John James Audubon.
5/13/2010
Album ID: 1003480
Who's walking whom?
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Kelly Chambers, 6, exercising her dog Buddy, in 1975. The photo was shot on the Fourth of July, but wasn't published until July 9, probably as a filler. The caption writer had to use some real imagination to fill out the cutline. To fill space the writer wondered whether Kelly was walking Buddy or Buddy was walking Kelly. The photograph chosen for use in the paper was a different picture from the one filed in the archives. Perhaps the photographer printed his favorite shot on oversize paper, which presented a storage problem for librarians.
5/13/2010
Album ID: 1003436
Pythons in the Everglades
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Until 2000, only about a dozen pythons had ever been documented in the park. The following years documented a steady and disturbing climb. The python problem was initially caused by pet owners no longer able or willing to care for a critter that is capable, potentially, of crushing the life out of them. A few owners have been strangled by overgrown pets. While dumping is still considered a major source of snakes, the larger concern is that a foreign species has not only managed to survive but thrive.
The Burmese are breeding, producing offspring that eat just about anything - and a lot of anything.
5/7/2010
Album ID: 999730
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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It was once considered a vast, useless, mosquito-infested swamp. But "There are no other Everglades in the world," Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote in her 1947 book "The Everglades: River of Grass." It became the Bible for conservation of Florida's wetlands. Douglas dedicated many of her 108 years to the cause.
