Burmese Pythons Case Study

towel and have the handler give it a command to “find it” or “search”. Both handlers will follow the dog until a Burmese Python is found, and then the second handler will remove it.
Expected Outcomes
I expect the trained tracking dogs to find an average of one Burmese Python every two hours. If every dog finds two pythons per day of effort, in order to remove
2,000 Burmese Pythons, each team will need to work four to five hours a day for a total of one hundred days. This gives the ten teams flexibility of when to go out and search.
Some days a team might find more than two pythons, other days they may find none.
Weather also plays a roll in a teams ability to search and the length of this effort gives team ample time to meet the quota of 2,000 Burmese pythons, or 200 per team.

It is nearly impossible to remove every single Burmese Python so in order to restore the ecosystem, we want to decrease the population to a manageable size. After the initial removal of 2,000 pythons, removal efforts should be continued but may not need to be as extensive. Burmese Pythons have been established in Southern
Florida for at least 20 years and it may take 20 more years to restore the ecosystem’s