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To Target Pythons, Florida Researchers Are GPS-Tracking Possums and Waiting Until They Get Eaten

Wildlife biologists are developing a new python tracking technique that uses GPS-collared possums to lead them to hungry snakes.

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Florida scientists found an unlikely python-tracking trick after a snake ate an opossum

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

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Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Wildlife researchers have found an unconventional way to help control invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades – by using one of the snakes’ favorite prey.

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

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Invasive Burmese Pythons In Florida May Have Finally Met Their Match: GPS-Tracked Opossums

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Key Largo’s ‘Spy’ Opossums Lead Hunters To Giant Pythons

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking collars around their necks and releasing them back into the mangrove thickets.

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Florida uses GPS-collared opossums to track invasive pythons

Florida scientists are scaling up a novel python-tracking program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, relies on the snakes eating the collared animals, allowing ...