Florida Deploys Robo Rabbits to Fight Pythons

AP

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 hiding spots.

It’s the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are decimating native species with their voracious appetites. In Everglades National Park, officials say the snakes have eliminated 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds. More

17 Comments on Florida Deploys Robo Rabbits to Fight Pythons

  1. Florida has F’ed up big in their efforts to eliminate the Burmese Python. They don’t pay a bounty to the average guy bringing in a big ass snake. They subsidize professional snake hunters in their efforts. Very stoopid. And they should know by know it’s not working. Hey Rhonda, where you at. So if you are you’re average red neck, tooling around in waste deep water and happen upon a huge freaken snake and kill said snake, you get very little reward. Why bother? I say, release the red necks.

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  2. So, bunnies. WTH. How is a bunny going to catch a snake? Do they explode when swallowed? Tied off to a heavy duty saltwater rig with steel line? Do robo-bunnies have “laser beams”? (Asking for a friend who spent several years at Evil Medical School)

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  3. Florida wildlife management screwed the pooch when this first started they wanted license fees we weren’t to shoot them and a few other things and now it’s too late .we had issues with black bears and they didn’t listen either government fails at every level.

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