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

Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida's invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.

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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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 ...
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Florida possums with GPS collars used to track pythons in Everglades

Opossums are being used to fight invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Here's how researchers are doing it and pythons ...
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Florida scientists use GPS-collared opossums to capture pythons

Florida researchers are expanding a python-tracking method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. Discovered accidentally in 2022, the approach has already led to the ...
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Wild video shows python hanging from rafters pulling possum up by its neck

Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...