Florida’s Everglades have long been plagued by an invasive army of Burmese pythons, wreaking havoc on local wildlife and disrupting the ecosystem. In an unconventional experiment, honey badgers—known ...

More than 6,300 pounds of Burmese python were tracked and removed by the team, which has removed more than 40,000 pounds of invasive snake across a 200-square-mile area since 2013.