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Table 1 Summary information for free-living Burmese pythons, deployment times, and tag types

From: Accelerometry to study fine-scale activity of invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) in the wild

Python ID

Total length (cm)

Sex

Mass (kg)

Observation period

Number of days at large

Acceleration data logger tag type

Mean body temp. (C)

P42

407

F

22.1

9/27/10–10/16/10

19

Vemco (12-bit)

28.68**

P42*

"

"

21.8

12/17/10–12/30/10

13

Cefas (8-bit)

16.20

P41

466

F

51

12/17/10–3/22/11

95

Cefas (8-bit)

23.36

P51

508

F

63.6

2/17/12–4/22/12

65

Cefas (8-bit)

26.08

P52

537

F

74.6

3/12/12–4/19–12

38

Cefas (8-bit)

27.16

  1. Summary biological and observation period data for each Burmese python (Python bivittatus) tagged with acceleration data loggers (ADL) in Everglades National Park, South Florida, USA
  2. * Python P42 died 13 days after being tagged for the second time; data from this deployment not used in other analyses unless noted recorded by ADL
  3. ** Body temperature data from this deployment measured by an implanted iButton Temperature logger
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Animal Biotelemetry

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