Rich Botta bags a python during a “Python Patrol” responder course on Thursday in Davie hosted by Florida Atlantic University’s Environmental Science Program in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.
Posted on Thu, Jun. 28, 2012
For students, a lesson on trapping pythons
They came to Florida Atlantic University to learn about wading birds, but on Thursday, they got a lesson in slithering snakes.About 17 environmental science students, most of whom are studying avian ecology, were trained on how to capture Burmese pythons, non-native snakes that have virtually wiped out raccoons, marsh rabbits and other mammals in the southern region of Everglades National Park.Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.
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