{"id":8883,"date":"2020-07-29T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/07\/usgs-partners-track-and-remove-burmese-pythons\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:10","slug":"usgs-partners-track-and-remove-burmese-pythons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/usgs-partners-track-and-remove-burmese-pythons\/","title":{"rendered":"USGS, partners track and remove Burmese pythons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where there are male pythons, females are not far away. That&#8217;s the idea for an initiative to track and remove invasive Burmese pythons that are wreaking havoc on South Florida&#8217;s ecosystems and endangered species. Male &#8220;scout&#8221; pythons are outfitted with tracking devices that lead to the fast-breeding, elusive female, which can grow up to 18 feet. Furman alumnus Matthew McCollister &#8217;05, a biologist with Big Cypress National Preserve, is part of the multi-agency approach to protect Florida&#8217;s native species. Learn more in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/usgs-and-partners-tracking-and-removing-burmese-pythons-southern-florida\">USGS news release<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2020\/07\/09\/matthew-mccollister-front-lines-florida-fight-burmese-pythons\/\">related story<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there are male pythons, females are not far away. That&#8217;s the idea for an initiative to track and remove invasive Burmese pythons that are wreaking havoc on South Florida&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,19,6],"tags":[373,374,375],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-biology","category-in-the-news","tag-burmese-pythons","tag-invasive-species","tag-south-florida-ecosystems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}