A Sneaky Way of Solving Florida's Python Problem

A Sneaky Way of Solving Florida's Python Problem

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

South Africa and Israel, Local Climate Change, Winter Olympics 2018

Episode: South Africa and Israel, Local Climate Change, Winter Olympics 2018

  • Feb 15, 2018
  • 12:51 mins

Guest: M. Rockwell Parker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, James Madison University How do you catch a 20-foot long, 200-pound, alligator-eatin’ python? Or should you just run? Probably a good idea, but Burmese Pythons are a major problem in the Florida Everglades and they’re really tricky to catch. So a wily biologist named Rocky Parker has a tricky solution he’s hoping will work.