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.

Ecologists saw nocturnal spiders attracting prey with its web by using fireflies as bait, according to a new study.

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.