A team of UF/IFAS and USGS scientists are on the search for pythons, employing new tactics and equipment in the next phase of a large-scale python telemetry scout project launched last year. The goal of the project is to study Burmese python biology and movement patterns as they leverage state-of-the-art radio telemetry technology during the species’ mating and breeding season to locate and remove pythons within a densely aquatic site in the eastern Everglades. A site where there is an abundance of pythons and conditions that make it easy for them to camouflage into the tall sawgrass and slip …
