Florida’s giant pythons have a new predator, and the video stunned wildlife experts. For years, the invasive snakes have decimated local wildlife with no natural enemy strong enough to stop them.
In the summer of 2021, researchers reviewing footage from a trail camera in the Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida watched something they had not recorded before. A Florida bobcat approached the nest of an adult Burmese python, a protected clutch of eggs, and began to eat them. The animal then cached the remaining eggs, a behavior suggesting it intended to return. The footage marked…
Stray cats and rats are vanishing from America’s largest landfill, and the reason has stunned cleanup crews. For years, thousands of felines prowled the massive dump, keeping rodent populations in check while workers fed them scraps.
In early 2024, technicians reviewing night camera footage at the Puente Hills landfill, the largest waste site in North America, noticed something unusual. The infrared cameras, which had recorded nightly activity at the site for years, were suddenly capturing empty frames. The rats and stray cats that had dominated the footage had vanished. Researchers soon identified the cause: coyotes had moved…