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

Florida officials are testing a new method for detecting invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades that involves robotic ...

Night of the Robbits! A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons ...

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.

They look, move and smell like rabbits a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the ...

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.