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‘Robo-Bunnies’ Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| 21 July 2025
| Sarah Kuta
Posted on 07/26/2025 12:05:05 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: silent majority rising
To: allendale
Or trained mink. They get quite feisty going after prey.
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:41:00 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
To: silent majority rising
I was thinking a .410 Judge-like revolver in the chest of the bunny.
To: dljordan
Does python taste good? You’d get a lot of meat off one of those huge ones.
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:43:53 PM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
To: fso301
As mentioned in the article, pythons are very good at hiding.
SFWMD has a Python Elimination Program with a link for application to become a Python Elimination Agent.
Agents receive an hourly wage plus bonus:
To: NautiNurse
If it’s like those fake AI made animals in shows, it won’t work.
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:52:38 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:53:08 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: fso301
We have open season on them, and a bounty system.
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:54:31 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
To: NautiNurse
Why don’t they go ahead and add scent to them up front?
To: NautiNurse
Python skin looks pretty cool on the back of a hunting bow.
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posted on
07/26/2025 12:55:09 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
To: PGR88
I thought of that, but someone unaware could get hurt from that, then there goes the budget for the next decade.
To: Flaming Conservative
I wondered the same thing. They are scientists. Can’t have too many variables at one time, I suppose.
To: piasa
Pretty nice handbags too.
To: piasa
Or a pair of boots or shoes.
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posted on
07/26/2025 1:01:03 PM PDT
by
waterhill
(Nobody cares, work harder!)
To: NautiNurse
Just wait until these robo rabbits start breeding, then what
To: nevadapatriot
Even worse, the robo-rabbits might demand hazardous duty pay, disability and death benefits.
To: silent majority rising
Put explosives in the robo-bunnies.
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posted on
07/26/2025 1:09:41 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Unchecked mass insanity of woke will be more devastating than all the wars and plagues of the past.)
To: PGR88
thats what i thought
bunny bombs
but they might blow up other predators
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posted on
07/26/2025 1:11:28 PM PDT
by
joshua c
To: Salvavida
No sport in that. I thought about using a .22 to make it a little more fair, but a shot gun means business.
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posted on
07/26/2025 1:23:05 PM PDT
by
silent majority rising
(When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To: HYPOCRACY
I’ve never eaten one. I got to thinking about killing Copperheads. You kill one, throw him in the back of the truck and he’ll crawl around all day with no head. I don’t want to be in a boat with a bunch of dead pythons crawling all over the place.
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posted on
07/26/2025 1:29:07 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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