Florida Had No Idea Tracked Snakes Would Expose Where the Everglades' Mammals Went

Florida Had No Idea Tracked Snakes Would Expose Where the Everglades' Mammals Went For years, people driving the roads of the Everglades noticed something was missing: the raccoons, the opossums, the rabbits, even the deer that used to show up in the headlights. Then biologists started following Burmese pythons fitted with radio transmitters — and the snakes led them straight to the answer. In this video: how pythons got into the Everglades, what the road surveys of the early 2000s revealed, how radio-tracked "scout" snakes are used to find breeding females, what the stomach contents and marsh-rabbit experiments showed, and what Florida is doing now — from the Python Challenge to detector dogs. This is one of the clearest cases of an invasive predator rewriting an American ecosystem, told with the data. Subscribe for more stories from Wild America. #Everglades #BurmesePython #Florida #InvasiveSpecies #Wildlife