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Skip Snow and Mike Rochford have charming personalities, perfect for anyone who works with snakes.
斯基普·斯诺和迈克·罗奇福德有着迷人的个性，非常适合与蛇打交道。
Here in the Florida Everglades, they're after some party crashers, invasive Burmese pythons.
在佛罗里达大沼泽地，他们在追捕一些不速之客--入侵的缅甸蟒蛇。
Over the past decade, escaped or abandoned pythons have made a home of the Everglades, and are wreaking havoc on the local bird, small mammal and reptile populations.
在过去的十年里，逃窜或被遗弃的蟒蛇在大沼泽地安家，并对当地的鸟类、小型哺乳动物和爬行动物种群造成了严重破坏。
Skip and Mike's team do their best to capture and remove these invasive animals, but they're also trying to study how they live and move around in the swamps.
斯基普和迈克的团队尽最大努力捕捉和清除这些入侵动物，但他们也在努力研究它们是如何在沼泽中生活和移动的。
The team inserts tiny, harmless tracking devices into several of these stealthy serpents before relocating them back into the wild.
研究小组在其中几条潜行的蛇身上植入了微小的、无害的追踪装置，然后将它们放归野外。
Within minutes of the test, 2 of the snakes slip away into the thick brush.
在测试的几分钟内，两条蛇溜进了厚厚的灌木丛。
They try to find the sneaky snakes using an antenna, but after hearing nothing, Mike takes this game of hide and seek to the skies.
他们试图用天线找到这两条狡猾的蛇，但什么也没听到，于是迈克把这个捉迷藏的游戏带到了天空。
Using special antennas mounted on the plane, Mike is hoping he can pick up signals from the snakes.
通过安装在飞机上的特殊天线，迈克希望能接收到蛇发出的信号。
After an intense search, a faint signal appears followed by a huge discovery, the snakes have traveled 35 miles and 42 miles back to their original capture locations.
经过紧罗密鼓的搜索，微弱的信号出现了，随之而来的是一个巨大的发现，这两条蛇已经分别走了35英里，42英里，并回到了原来的捕获地点。
This tells the scientists that the snakes are well-settled in their territories, they've made the Everglades their home.
这告诉科学家，这些蛇在它们的领地上定居得很好，它们把大沼泽地当成了自己的家。
Why are Skip and Mike so focused on evicting these slithering squatters?
为什么斯基普和迈克如此专注于驱逐这些狡猾的擅自占用者？
They have to get rid of the invasive snakes in order to balance the food chain and restore the Everglades ecosystem.
为了平衡食物链和恢复大沼泽地的生态系统，他们必须驱逐入侵的蛇类。
Who are Skip Snow and Mike Rochford?
斯基普·斯诺和迈克·罗奇福德是谁？
They are snake-spying, mud-wrestling, transmitter-chasing, Everglades-protecting, wildlife research biologists.
他们是暗中监视蛇类、对付泥浆、追逐信号发射机、保护大沼泽地的野生动物研究生物学家。
