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.

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

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

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Robot rabbits are helping snare pesky invasive pythons in Florida's Everglades. The "robo rabbits" are intended to smell, look and act like the real thing, luring Burmese pythons out of hiding and ...

Furry robots that look, move, and smell like real rabbits are being used to lure and capture invasive Burmese pythons in ...