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Scientists are using possums fitted with GPS-tracking collars to take down pythons in Florida

For decades, the state of Florida has faced a python problem. Burmese pythons were introduced into the Everglades through the ...
AOL

Florida Scientists Found an Unlikely Python-Tracking Trick After a Snake Ate an Opossum

Scientists in Florida are using an unexpected tool to fight invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums. Specifically, opossums wearing GPS collars. And the strategy doesn’t involve following ...
Sun Sentinel

As pythons try to hide, they face a new enemy: Possums with GPS collars

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...

Florida finds an unexpected ally in the fight against pythons: opossums

Scientists in Florida have launched a new offensive against the Burmese python invasion, this time using opossums, one of the ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

ZooMiami X-ray shows invasive python — and its tracking transmitter — inside cottonmouth snake

MIAMI - Zoologists in South Florida made an incredible discovery when they went looking for an invasive python they had been tracking with a transmitter — only to find it had been eaten by a native ...