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.

The water district and University of Florida researchers deployed 120 robot rabbits this summer as an experiment.

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

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

The findings, published Thursday (Aug. 28) in the Journal of Animal Ecology, revealed the LED webs attracted three times more ...