{"id":99064,"date":"2024-06-19T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=99064"},"modified":"2024-06-19T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:55:15","slug":"weird-science-burmese-pythons-and-their-eventual-trek-to-the-north-carolina-coast","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/weird-science-burmese-pythons-and-their-eventual-trek-to-the-north-carolina-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Science: Burmese Pythons and their eventual trek to the North Carolina coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mike_Cove_w_Burmese_python_800w.jpg\" alt=\"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.\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.85em;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>By Annette Weston, <abbr title=\"Public Radio East\">PRE<\/abbr><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A scientist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences \u2014 and a bit of a snake wrangler \u2014 is watching a Florida invasive species closely. Not just any snakes \u2013 snakes that can reach 18 feet long; Burmese pythons are not in North Carolina right now, but, as he told <abbr title=\"Public Radio East\">PRE<\/abbr>\u2019s Annette Weston for Weird Science, they likely will be eventually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/staff\/michael-cove\"><strong>Dr. Mike Cove<\/strong><\/a> 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 \u2013 in particular their destruction, in some spots, of the mammals they feed upon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicradioeast.org\/2024-06-10\/weird-science-burmese-pythons-and-their-eventual-trek-to-the-north-carolina-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article or listen to the show on PRE<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and groundbreaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99065,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/99064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/99064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}