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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Susanne Rust

Meet the women hunting giant pythons 'eating everything' in the Everglades

KENDALL, Fla. — Donna Kalil loves snakes. She's been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela's capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force pilot.

"We'd play 'I-spy,' and we'd use the snakes, birds and other animals that lived in the jungle," she said. "I developed a really sharp eye."

Now she kills them.

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