The removal of female pythons plays a critical role in disrupting the breeding cycle of the apex predators that are wreaking havoc on the Everglades ecosystem and taking food sources from other native species.
The largest ever Burmese python found in the Florida Everglades has been trapped by scientists with the help of another snake.
The massive 18-foot-long female weighed 215 pounds and was discovered with 122 developing eggs inside her, another record., which tracks and studies Burmese Pythons - an invasive species. The team used radio transmitters transplanted in male"scout" snakes to study python movements, breeding behaviours and habitat use.Advertisement
"You could use a magnet, and in a similar way our male scout snakes are attracted to the biggest females around." The team were tracking male python Dionysus, named after the Greek god of fertility, in an area of the western Everglades.