GPS-collared opossums help track Florida pythons
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Burmese pythons are one of the Sunshine State's most invasive species and have been an established predator in the Everglades for decades. The enormous snakes have reduced the Everglades population of raccoons by 99%,
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Florida researchers are expanding an unconventional program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, takes advantage of the snakes’ natural predation on opossums ...
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