They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in ...

Wildlife officials in the Florida Everglades are flipping the script on predator versus prey with robotic rabbits. Watch this ...

Amid the wetlands of Florida’s Everglades, a surprising innovation is being used to tackle the Burmese python infestation: robotic rabbits. These highly realistic, remote-controlled devices, designed ...

They look, move and smell like rabbits a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the invasive snakes out of their hiding spots.

New research confirms that Burmese pythons, dumped in Everglades National Park in Florida and now reproducing, are wiping out the mammals that have historically populated the park, the Miami Herald ...

Florida is rolling out a new program to help combat the rise of invasive pythons in the States.According to Independent News, Researchers from University of Florida, have teamed up in August 2025 ...

Burmese pythons like this one are responsible for the rapid decline of native mammals in the Florida Everglades National Park.

The robot rabbits are remote-controlled, solar-powered and even have cameras which can look out for signs of movement that would show if a python is close by.

Predation by pythons and other reptiles were distinctive since they eat the rabbits whole, and the transmitter would then be inside the snake or alligator.

Beznoska said he believes the rabbit dinner became entangled in the blanket, so Houdini just ate the whole thing. The blanket, which had been in the snake's cage to keep him warm, was plugged in ...

It's long been suspected that Burmese pythons are having population-level impacts on the Everglades' mammal populations -- between 2003 and 2011, for example, sightings of raccoons and opossums ...