Mike Dorcas

Davidson College professor Mike Dorcas and his students last week implanted radio transmitters into 7 Burmese pythons that are part of a study in South Carolina to determine if the big snakes can survive farther north in the southeastern U.S.

The snakes were captured in Florida and brought to a research center in South Carolina, where Prof. Dorcas and other experts are studying whether they can survive this far north.

The question is whether there’s a threat that pythons in the wild could make their way farther northward.

A wire service news story about the research last week briefly put Prof. Dorcas and Davidson into the national spotlight, after being picked by more than 200 news outlets nationwide.

LINKS

Here are a couple of links to the story:

June 24, 2009, Associated Press, via USNews.com, “Burmese pythons slithering their way north?”

June 24, 2009, Associated Press, via Google News, “Burmese pythons slithering their way north?”