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 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.

The Burmese python invasion started with releases — intentional or not — that allowed them to gain a foothold in Everglades National Park by the mid-1980s, according to the 2021 Florida Python Control ...

Battling to control the population of Burmese pythons, authorities in Florida have turned to robot rabbits for help.

The control logic of the robot is constrained to these Python classes/files: models/supervisor.py —this class is responsible for the interaction between the simulated world around the robot and ...

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