Over a hundred robot rabbits were deployed to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are ...

Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida are trying a new system to rid the ...

Burmese pythons pose a huge threat to native species in the Florida Everglades. Officials have used creative methods to ...

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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 Florida.

they would become python prey. “The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot bunny study that launched this summer.

The Burmese python, a non native species to Florida, was first recorded in the Sunshine State in the 1990s. Its exact population size is unclear.