Everglades Python Study - December 2005 
From December 7-11, Dr. Dorcas and student Shannon Pittman travelled to the Everglades to help search for Burmese Pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) and perform surgeries implanting radiotransmitters into their body cavities. The radiotransmitters will allow the movements of the pythons to be tracked, and various aspects of their behavior to be studied.
Searching for Pythons
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| Found - dead python |
The Surgery
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| 16.2 foot python | lethargic after being in a bag | recovers in the trunk! |
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| anesthetizing the python | performing the surgery | situating the snake for surgery |
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| the captors of the 16.2 foot python |
CHECK OUT THE PYTHON SURGERY VIDEO
Other Herps
(photo: JD Willson) |
(photo: JD Willson) |
(photo: JD Willson) |
Agkistrodon piscivorus |
Chelydra serpentina | Elaphe guttata |
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| Farancia abacura | Dierochelys reticularia |
Crotalus adamanteus |
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(photo: JD Willson) |
(photo: JD Willson) |
| Crocodylus acutus | Nerodia fasciata | Nerodia floridana |
