{"id":23622,"date":"2022-06-23T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biologists-capture-the-heaviest-python-in-florida"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:10:07","slug":"biologists-capture-the-heaviest-python-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biologists-capture-the-heaviest-python-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Biologists capture the heaviest python in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists in Florida have captured the heaviest Burmese python ever as part of their python elimination program. The female python weighing in at 215 pounds (98 kg) and 18 ft (5m) long was found in the Everglades according to a press release from the Conservancy of South Florida. To capture the massive python biologists implanted a male python with radio transmitters and tracked its location. These are called &#8220;scouts&#8221; which are helpful in helping scientists understand python movements, breeding behaviors, habitat, and more. &#8220;How do you find the needle in the haystack? You could use a magnet, and in a similar way our male scout snakes are attracted to the biggest females around,&#8221; Ian Bartoszek, wildlife biologist and environmental science project manager for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said in the press release. Bartoszek said the &#8220;scout&#8221; male python led them to a western part of the Everglades where the snake frequented. While there, they found the male with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists in Florida have captured the heaviest Burmese python ever as part of their python elimination program.The female python weighing in at 215 pounds (98 kg) and 18 ft (5m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,249,434,185,351],"class_list":["post-23622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-pets","tag-python","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}