Wildlife researchers in Florida have tried lots of methods to remove invasive and highly destructive Burmese pythons from Florida’s ecosystems. Most methods are inefficient, and most involve humans ...
The release — intentional or not — of the invasive Burmese pythons into the fragile Everglades is one of Florida's greatest ecological catastrophes. Pythons are voracious eaters with no native natural ...
Miami, Fla — Florida wildlife experts are deploying 40 robotic rabbit decoys into the Everglades to help eradicate the Burmese python problem. The robo-bunnies are equipped with a heat signature and ...
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 giant invasive snakes out of their ...
In South Florida, beneath the tangled brush of the Everglades, a toy rabbit stirs. It doesn’t hop or graze, but to a nearby Burmese python, it could pass for prey. The rabbit is a plush toy gutted of ...
One Florida neighborhood had some quick flashes of color slithering by their homes recently. Residents of a St. Augustine community caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes last ...
In the swampy expanses of Florida’s Everglades, a new weapon has emerged in the battle against the invasive Burmese python: robot rabbits. These lifelike, remote-controlled decoys, designed to mimic ...