Burmese python, Florida
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Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades-and it's working.
In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking collars around their necks and releasing them back into the mangrove thickets.
Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the invasive snake.