Some snakes are spies.

Scientist Austin Fitzgerald (left) and biologists Matthew McCollister and Jillian Josimovich wrangle a Burmese python named Charlie 5 at Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida. (AP)
Teams of scientists and biologists have been studying the invasive reptile. They have removed hundreds of the pythons from Florida’s wetlands. (AP)
Charlie 5, a Burmese python, is held after being caught in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. (AP)
Biologist Jillian Josimovich uses a tracker to find a Burmese python with a radio transmitter placed in its skin. (AP)
Burmese pythons belong in Asia, not Florida. They spread in that state after some escaped. Their cages were broken open during a hurricane. (AP)

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Pythons are good at hide and seek. But a few wear trackers. They slither back to where other snakes hide. Beep. Beep. The signal gives them all away.

READ MORE: Burmese pythons get big and hungry. There are too many in Florida. They eat other animals. Scientists have a plan to catch pythons. First they catch one snake and put a tracker inside it. This makes the snake a spy! The snake is released. It goes back to where other snakes like to hide. The tracker gives away the whole bunch. Genesis 1:28 tells us that God put people in charge of animals—even snakes!

Lesson #2: Snake Safari. Young children are usually inquisitive about every creature they see. Primary teacher Reagan Tunstall found fake plastic snakes at a supermarket and brought them to school to teach her first graders about snakes, syllables, and other things. Find her ideas at https://www.tunstallsteachingtidbits.com/2013/04/snake-safari.html.