Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋<p>"Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> - A new trick, less expensive than maintaining live rabbits as bait, to lure invasive Burmese Pythons out of difficult hiding places so they can be "removed" (euthanized). Everglades Nat'l Park has lost 95% of small mammal wildlife due to the invader, introduced mostly by people releasing overgrown pets. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pythons-everglades-florida-robot-rabbits-4cf0b3879d8fa0940178f1262bf84d11" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/pythons-eve</span><span class="invisible">rglades-florida-robot-rabbits-4cf0b3879d8fa0940178f1262bf84d11</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robotics</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>