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

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

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 ...

Robot rabbits are the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons are possible ...

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 ...

Wildlife researchers in Florida have tried lots of methods to remove Burmese pythons from Florida’s ecosystems. The latest trick relies on the snake’s ability to find a delicious-lookin… ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...