Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits to Lure Invasive Pythons
- This month, researchers led by UF professor Robert McCleery released 40 solar-powered, remote-controlled robot bunnies in South Florida, ATTRIBUTION: YES- The Palm Beach Post.
- With no natural predators, Burmese pythons introduced via the exotic pet trade in the 1970s, decimate Florida Everglades wildlife, illustrating severity.
- Designed to mimic key prey cues, these decoys, with motors and heaters, attract pythons by replicating rabbit movement and body heat.
- Trial data revealed that pythons respond to heat, movement, and scent cues, adding expert insight from Mike Kirkland, lead invasive animal biologist for the South Florida Water Management District.
- They plan to expand use by next summer, with Mike Kirkland stating scent capabilities will soon be added to enhance detection efforts.
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Florida has a new and creative approach to getting the Burmese pythons out of the Everglades using robot bunnies who lure the pythons into traps so they can be captured and killed. Researchers out of the University of Florida recently released a total of 40 animatronic bunnies in the wild to get them to lure […] The post Killing Pythons: Robot Bunnies Are Unleashed in the Everglades appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.
Normally, Python's rabbits - in the Everglades in the U.S. state of Florida, however, the snakes now eat this preference as a disaster. To combat the overpopulation of Burmese python here, rabbits are now used as robots.
Almost half a hundred robotic rabbits are willing to risk their lives for science, facing six-meter-long pythons.
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