Following the conclusion of its annual Python Hunting Challenge, which allows hunters to kill thousands of the invasive ...

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

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park ...

Burmese pythons are not native to Florida’s wetlands. Their population surged in the 1990s after the exotic pet trade and a reptile facility collapse during Hurricane Andrew.

“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 ... s hunters and is involved in other python removal ...

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.