Officials estimate that 95 percent of the park’s small ... used real rabbits in an attempt to lure pythons, to little success ...

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

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

“The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot ... python removal projects, including the robo-bunny 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.