Greg, el perro cazador de pitones

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Every now and again I am sent a story by a listener. Today’s fascinating, true story comes from Sharon. The Florida Everglades is facing a big problem. Many of its native species are being killed off by Burmese pythons. However, a dog named Greg is helping to clear to Everglades of this stealthy predator, hunting down snakes invisible to the naked eye. This story is in the third person and the present and past tenses. Important vocabulary in the story includes: “piton” (python),“pantano” ...

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0:00.0	Hello, and bienvenitos to this episode of simple stories in Spanish.
0:06.5	Every now and again, I am sent a story by a listener.
0:12.1	Today's fascinating, true story comes from Sharon.
0:18.4	Thank you for sharing this story.
0:26.2	The Florida Everglades is facing a big problem.
0:43.9	Many of its native species are being killed off by Burmese pythons. However, a dog named Greg is helping to clear the Everglades of this stealthy predator,
0:59.1	hunting down snakes invisible to the naked eye. This story is in the third person and the present and past tenses, as well as a sprinkling of others.
1:16.8	Important vocabulary in the story includes piton, python, pantano, swamp, casar to hunt, Casador, hunter, and Refugio, Shelter. I hope you enjoy Greg, El Perro Casador de Pitonez.
1:26.6	This is a quote about a perro.
1:30.3	Sin embargo,
1:32.3	it's a great problem in the Everglades of Florida.
1:38.3	The Everglades are an enormous pantano, that is hogar to many animals indigenas,
1:49.8	including the panthera of Florida, the Kaiman American, the Manatee,
1:57.6	hundreds of species of pachers and peces,
2:02.1	with dozens of
2:04.4	other mammophers and reptiles.
2:08.9	One reptile in particular
2:11.0	is relatively
2:13.1	new to the Everglades.
2:17.3	It's the Piton Bermanagh.
2:21.3	Nobody knows exactly how the pitonies
2:26.0	have gotten to abitars the Everglades.
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