Radio Tracking Helps Hunt Burmese Pythons
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
When invasive Burmese pythons are breeding, radio-tracking one python can help find and capture more, a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher says. "It is complementary to our current removal tool, in which we drive on roads and levees to capture moving pythons. It's complementary because it's effective at a time of year when we do not catch pythons on the road, and also because it provides more opportunities to catch the really big, breeding females," said Brian Smith, lead author of the study.