Robot Rabbits: Florida's New Weapon Against Invasive Pythons

Florida has a problem with big, invasive snakes called Burmese pythons. These snakes are not from Florida and are hurting other animals there.

To catch these snakes, people deploy robot rabbits. The robots look and smell like real rabbits. They move like real rabbits too, to lure the snakes into coming closer. The snakes think the robots are food and come to eat them.

When a snake comes near a robot rabbit, a camera sees it. Then, people can go catch the snake. This new idea is helping to remove the big snakes from Florida's nature areas.