Opossums vs. Pythons: Inside Florida’s Unusual Strategy for Fighting Invasive Snakes

Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades—and it’s working.

Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Biologists Are Using Florida Opossums as Low-Tech Trackers to Hunt the State's Invasive Burmese Pythons

According to CBS News 12 and the Sun Sentinel, research biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove from the Crocodile Lake ...

Why Florida Scientists Are Putting GPS Collars on Opossums to Track Giant Burmese Pythons

Florida scientists have found an unlikely weapon in their fight against invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums ...
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Florida biologists use opossums to track and remove invasive pythons

Wildlife researchers in Key Largo are collaring opossums to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons that prey on endangered native mammals. The method uses mortality signals from VHF collars when a ...

Possums vs. pythons: How Florida’s only marsupial became a weapon against invasive snakes

KEY LARGO — Biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove part a curtain of vegetation and stride into the shadows of a dense forest in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge to check on a line of possum ...

Scientists sacrifice delicious opossums to fight Florida’s invasive pythons

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

In the battle vs. invasive Burmese pythons, Florida turns to possums

One challenge in managing invasive pythons is their elusive behavior, compounded by the difficult-to-access terrain and their ...
Space Coast Daily

EXPERTS: Burmese Python Migration Moving North Toward Brevard County

Wildlife experts are raising concerns as invasive Burmese python populations continue to expand beyond South Florida.

There's a Cave Full of Bats Infected by the 'Bleeding Eye' Virus. People Are Trespassing to See It, and Scientists Want It to Stop

While studying predators visiting Python Cave, home to bats confirmed to have Marburg virus, scientists observed hundreds of ...

People keep trespassing near cave filled with bats infected by Ebola’s cousin

You do not want to contract Marburg virus disease (MVD). Formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, it belongs to the same ...
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Raj Shamani’s ‘Figuring Out’ shocks netizens with 15 feet Burmese beast as live python hiss and strike goes viral

The viral clip of the massive snake draping over the host, hissing and striking has racked up millions of views across ...