Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor's yard.

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Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.