Weird Science: Burmese Pythons and their eventual trek to the North Carolina coast
For immediate release ‐ June 19, 2024
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Dr. Mike Cove, center, is an applied conservation ecologist and mammalogist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and has been researching the impact of the Burmese Python on the Florida Keys. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Annette Weston, PRE
“A scientist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences — and a bit of a snake wrangler — is watching a Florida invasive species closely. Not just any snakes – snakes that can reach 18 feet long; Burmese pythons are not in North Carolina right now, but, as he told PRE’s Annette Weston for Weird Science, they likely will be eventually.
“Dr. Mike Cove is an applied conservation ecologist and mammalogist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and has been researching the impact of the Burmese Python on the Florida Keys – in particular their destruction, in some spots, of the mammals they feed upon.”
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