Florida Python Challenge returns
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"We're not putting these animals out there and in harm's way. Harm's way is there. We're just documenting what is happening."
Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this tiny marsupial makes it the perfect secret weapon.
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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 traps. A metal trap sits 20 yards into the woods.
It's almost python hunting season in Florida! Every year, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the South Florida Water Management District host a python challenge and award $10,000 to the registered participant who removes the ...
