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

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

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

The water district and University of Florida researchers deployed 120 robot rabbits this summer as an experiment.

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.

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.

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.