Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 20ft, have surged in south Florida due to snake owners releasing them when they get too big
The research intended to study – with the aid of GPS collars – how supplemental food resources, such as feral cat feeding stations and unsecured garbage sources, could influence the movement and behavior of small and medium-sized mammals.
“We always knew it was a possibility and that it had the potential to be flashy and scale up as a means of python removal from the environment,” said Michael Cove, a research curator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Cove said that the new alternative with opossums and raccoons has the potential to lead to captures without having to deploy pythons back into the environment.
Still, researchers have met pitfalls along the way, pinpointing ways to enhance future plans to expand the capturing method.
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