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.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Lieutenant Jolie Vandervlugt had a busy week. He pulled a Burmese python out of the engine compartment of a tractor-trailer and then wrangled another one in a dark yard less ...