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

Florida researchers are using opossums with tracking collars to find the state's invasive Burmese pythons in hard-to-reach areas

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

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Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

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Video shows Florida hunter catch a nearly 17-foot python weighing 202 pounds

A Florida man recently caught the second-heaviest python on record in the state in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

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Florida possums with GPS collars used to track pythons in Everglades

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GPS-collared opossums help track pythons after being eaten

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Crocodile vs. Python: The Survival Tactic That Tips the Fight

Who do you think would win a fight between a python and a crocodile in Florida? Generally, we would look to real-life examples for clues, but surprisingly, there isn’t very much of that. While there are a few examples of pythons getting into it with ...

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Opossums as weapons against Burmese pythons? Here's what's happening

Florida's opossums could soon become weaponized against prolific and invasive Burmese pythons by tracking them.

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Florida scientists scale up GPS-opossum strategy to track pythons

Florida researchers are expanding a program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered by accident in 2022, takes advantage of the snakes’ tendency to eat opossums, allowing collars to ...

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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.