Little girl relaxes with pet python wrapped around her body

A video of a girl and her snake is making rounds on the internet. The clip showed the girl lounging on the couch -- apparently watching television -- with the snake wrapped around her leg. At one point in the video, the snake appears to yawn, and the young girl seems perfectly content.

Just a little girl watching TV with her 12ft pet snake
The animal in the video is a Burmese python, a species usually found in southern Asian nations like Nepal, India, Thailand and Vietnam. However, Burmese pythons are popular as pets, and they’ve become an invasive species in south Florida, where they’re particularly plentiful in the Everglades. As pets, the animals have escaped into the wild, and some of them have grown to more than 16 feet long. When fully grown, they eat large animals, and there is at least one instance of a python eating an alligator, though the python later died.

The animals are not venomous. Instead, they kill their prey by grabbing it with their teeth then wrapping their bodies around it, constricting until it dies. They are strictly carnivorous.