Homestead, Florida (CNN) Donna Kalil couldn't hear a python slithering in the grass with the wind blowing. She hoped it was a harbinger of success in her quest to find a Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. The 25 hunters selected from 1,000 applicants will be paid to euthanize pythons under a $175,000 pilot program by the South Florida Water Management District . But if Kalil finds a python, it would be the first snake she will have ever killed. The python runs wild with no natural predators in the Florida Everglades.

Source: CNN April 01, 2017 16:30 UTC