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	Rabbits in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rabbits were originally introduced to Australia by the First Fleet in 1788, but the current major infestation appears to be the result of 24 wild rabbits released by Thomas Austin on his property "Barwon Downs" (near Winchelsea, Victoria) in 1859 for hunting purposes.
		Rabbits are extremely prolific creatures, and as Australia had no natural predators that could keep their population in check, rabbits spread rapidly across the southern parts of the continent.
		Shooting rabbits is reasonably common, and two main techniques are used: either twilight stalking with a rifle (usually using a.22 LR cartridge), or flushing them out of their burrows with water and shooting a running rabbit with a shotgun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia (1050 words)

	Rabbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rabbits are distinguished from the related hares in that they are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless; many also live underground in burrows.
		Rabbits are an example of an animal which is treated as food, pet and pest by the same culture.
		The rabbit would indeed need to be killed to have its ovaries inspected, but the death of the rabbit was not the indicator of the results.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rabbit (1528 words)

	Myxomatosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rabbits suffering in the last stages of the disease, commonly called "mixy" or "myxie" rabbits, are still a common sight in the UK in 2005.
		A vaccine is available for pet rabbits, but is illegal in Australia because of fears that the immunity conferred by the vaccine could be transmitted through the wild rabbit population, because the vaccine uses a live virus, the shope fibroma virus.
		It is conjectured that this is because the main transmission vector in Australia is the mosquito, while in Europe it is the flea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myxomatosis (751 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Although the common names rabbit and hare are often used interchangeably, in zoological classification the species called rabbits are characterized by their offspring that are born naked and blind, and by their habit of living in colonies in underground burrows.
		Although rabbits and hares are valued as game by hunters, as food, and for their fur, they often are pests to farmers whose trees and crops they destroy.
		In Australia a virus deadly only to true rabbits was developed, and in 1951 decimation of the pest began through the artificial promotion of this virus infection, known as myxomatosis.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/animals/rabbit.html (742 words)

	Environmental damage by wild rabbits
		The loss of vegetation from rabbit grazing threatens the survival of native birds, mammals, and insects that rely on plants for food and shelter.
		Rabbit densities of six to seven per hectare are common in arid zones.
		Rabbits are implicated in the decline of many species of native animals.
	www.csiro.au /communication/rabbits/qa2.htm (1359 words)

	Rabbits
		Sixteen rabbits are equal to the consumption rate of one sheep, so their impact on the environment is obvious.
		The burrowing bettong and the rufous hare-wallaby are the main native mammals impacted by the rabbit.
		Rabbit Calcivirus Disease (RCD) is a projected plan for the control of rabbits in Australia.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /zeller/rabbits.htm (595 words)

	RABBIT Case
		While the rabbit populations in Australia and New Zealand have been a plague on farmers for many years, it is possible that the virus may harm bats, cattle, deer, and plant life (namely the kiwi) as well.
		Australia is cooperating fully with New Zealand in providing the RCD vaccine and trying to devise plans for treating the virus should it spread to the kiwi and other plant life.
		Conversely, the farming community in Australia is quite pleased with the accidental release of RCD since it stands to reduce damage caused by rabbits from $A90-75 per year to $A36-30 million per year ($75-55 million to $27-23 million U.S.).
	www.american.edu /TED/RABBIT.HTM (3075 words)

	RABBIT - LoveToKnow Article on RABBIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the hare the wild rabbit is distinguished externally by its smaller size, shorter ears and feet, the absence or reduction of the fl patch at the tip of the ears, and its greyer color.
		The rabbit is believed to be a native of the western half of the Mediterranean basin, and still abounds in Spain, Sardinia, southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, Tunis and Algeria; and many of the islands adjoining these countries are overrun with these rodents.
		The Angora rabbit is characterized by the extreme elongation and fineness of the fur, which in good specimens reaches 6 or 7 in.
	www.1911ency.org /R/RA/RABBIT.htm (1017 words)

	Disease
		Domestic rabbits were initially highly prized and many attempts were made to establish them, until the inevitable invasion of the wild rabbit only a few years later.
		Throughout Australia, shooters and trappers were being hired as rabbits devastated crops and reduced the carrying capacity of the land dramatically.
		Rabbits were sometimes stopped by fences, but in plague proportions, there were so many rabbits piled up by the fences, that the rabbits acted as a ladder for others that simply walked over the fence.
	www.sonic.net /~evolve/wp/human_ecology/human_disease.htm (1439 words)

	New Scientist Premium- Australia's rabbits face all-out viral attack - This Week
		Australia is pushing ahead with its plan to release the rabbit calicivirus despite warnings by two American scientists that it is "playing with dynamite".
		The rabbit calicivirus has been at the centre of controversy in Australia since last October, when it escaped to the mainland from field trials being conducted on Wardang Island, about 5 kilometres off the coast of South Australia (This Week, 21 October 1995, p 4).
		Rabbits infected with the virus, which causes the blood to clot, have since turned up in all states except Tasmania.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg15120460.500.html (268 words)

	Rabbits from Australia \| Biosecurity New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Provided the rabbits appear healthy and free from ectoparasites and the documentation is in order the animals will be treated with a recognised insecticidal dusting powder and will be released to the importer.
		The rabbits described in the schedule were born and reared in captivity and have been resident in Australia for six months prior to export or since birth.
		The colony in which the rabbits were raised has been free from evidence of myxomatosis, Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Tyzzer's disease during the previous six months.
	www.biosecurity.govt.nz /imports/animals/standards/rabdomic.aus.htm (839 words)

	All About Rabbits
		A male rabbit is called a buck, and a female is called a doe.
		Rabbits are also well-known for their advanced breeding rate, another factor which differentiates them from hares; in theory, a doe can produce from two to eight live young per month, during the first half of the year, although a more common rate is half that.
		Rabbits have also appeared in Monty Python's Holy Grail, where the Monster of Caer Bannog, seemingly an innocuous white rabbit, guarded the cave to the Holy Grail.
	patriot.net /~bmcgin/allaboutrabbits.html (1004 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rabbits belong to the order Lagomorpha, which is divided into two families: Ochotonidae (pikas) and Leporidae (hares and rabbits).
		Rabbits are sociable and live in colonies with other rabbits in large, complex burrow systems (warrens).
		For example, Angora rabbits produce valuable wool; their hairs are particularly fine and easy to spin, usually half as thick as that of sheep wool.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/rabbit/rabbit.htm (1095 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Virus could sterilise Australia's rabbits
		For rabbits, geneticists chose to engineer the myxoma virus, which devastated populations when it was released in Australia half century ago.
		Four years ago, researchers selected the rabbit ZPB gene as the most promising of three zona pellucida genes to insert into the myxoma virus.
		For Australia's worst feral predator, the fox, the PAC CRC team has not been able to identify a virus that does not also infect domestic and wild dogs, including dingoes.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2647 (890 words)

	Alaska's European Rabbits, Alaska Science Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The European rabbits on Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska and on Umnak, Rabbit and Hog Islands in the Aleutians have an involved history which began about two million years ago.
		Once released, the European rabbit multiplies and does well in places where there is open grassland and not too many controlling predators such as fox, coyote or wolf.
		Harvestable populations of European rabbits have evolved from unknown numbers introduced on Umnak Island in 1930 and on Rabbit Island in 1940.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF2/281.html (293 words)

	Why were rabbits such a menace in Australia? , Rabbits became a menace in Australia because they breed so quickly and ...
		Many costly attempts to control the rabbits failed in Australia, but in the early 1950s a virus disease called myxamatosis was introduced.
		The virus is a specific parasite of the rabbit and is transmitted by the mosquito and the rabbit flea.
		But the export of their skins had proved profitable, and Australia is a principle source of the rabbit fur used commercially.
	www.4to40.com /QA/index.asp?counter=210&category= (569 words)

	The story of rabbits in Australia ia another fascinating case history in evolutionary biol
		By 1886 their descendents were colonizing new areas of southeastern Australia at the rate of 66 miles a year in all directions.
		By 1907 the rabbits had reached both the west and the east coasts of Australia, roughly the distance between California and New York.
		The rabbits were eating much of the sparse vegetation that supported Australia's huge sheep and cattle industry, and the graziers were suffering enormous financial losses.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/rabbitki.htm (441 words)

	Soft and Tender Rabbits
		An overview of various rabbit industries including the pros and cons of each of the industries available to the rabbit breeder and or potential breeder.
		Rabbit community items such as forums, greeting cards, a photo gallery and chat room.
		Subjects covered are keeping rabbits as a hobby, hints and tips on all aspects of rabbit keeping from house pets to showing.
	www.twilightbridge.com /hobbies/rabbits (423 words)

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		Almost all of the rabbits in Australia are descendants of the 24 original rabbits.
		Europe Similar to Australia, rabbits were a major cause of damage, particularly to the national forests of France.
		This is due to a different vector situation where the rabbit flea is believed to be the main vector, especially in Britain where the variation in number of cases of myxomatosis does not vary greatly throughout the year.
	prfdb.umd.edu /BSCI437/31/31.doc (1277 words)

	CISEO: Enforcers Lesson Plan
		The case is the introduction, spread and subsequent problem of wild rabbits in Australia.
		(Rabbits are both--"predators" of the vegetation and a natural form of prey in other ecosystems that kept their numbers in check.
		Focus students’ research on effects of rabbits on the environment, lack of natural predators, and methods of biological control based on the rabbit population problem.
	insected.arizona.edu /enforcers/case.html (968 words)

	EPOB 3400 Microbiology Lecture 22
		Rabbits were first introduced to Australia from England in 1859.
		When this virus was brought to Australia (remember it was a brand new disease to those descendants of English rabbits) it was extremely virulent towards them.
		Within a year,99.9% of all the rabbits in Australia died from the disease.
	spot.colorado.edu /~schmidts/Teaching/EPOB3400/micro22-2000.html (1224 words)

	KIDCYBER TOPICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		European rabbits came to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788.
		Because the rabbits ate so much, the ___________ was never able to regrow, the roots died and no longer held the _____________ together.
		One way that was _____________ but which caused a __________ problem was the breeding and release into __________ the of thousands of cats which would, it was thought, ____________ the rabbits.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/rabbitcloze.htm (214 words)

	Roosevelt, Theodore. 1916. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open: XI. A Curious Experience
		In each case it was a universally, or well-nigh universally, fatal epidemic, following a period during which the smitten animals had possessed good health and had flourished and increased greatly in spite of the flesh-eaters that preyed on them.
		The rabbits, on the contrary, move about so much that infectious diseases spread with extraordinary rapidity and they are the habitual food of every fair-sized bird and beast of prey, but their extraordinary fecundity enables them rapidly to recover lost ground.
		More efficient food rivals may be a factor; just as sheep drive out cattle from the same pasturage, and as, in Australia, rabbits drive out sheep.
	www2.bartleby.com /57/11.html (7114 words)

	Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Recreation/Pets/Rabbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunnie Rabbit Lover Site - Care and useful information on safe guarding your home and what it is like to have a house bunny.
		House Rabbit Society Rabbit Care Guide - House Rabbit Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that rescues abandoned rabbits and educates the public on rabbit care.
		Rabbits and Friends - Information about all breeds of rabbits and all aspects of keeping rabbits, from pet to show rabbits.
	www.reference.com /Dir/Recreation/Pets/Rabbits (368 words)

	Rabbits and Hares
		Rabbits are smaller and have shorter ears than their hare relatives.
		Various species and subspecies of rabbits and hares are found in brushy woods, plains and grasslands, mountains, deserts, around rivers and wetlands, and even in the Arctic tundra and snow.
		Although rabbits and hares are valued as game by hunters both for their food and fur, they are also are pests to farmers and gardeners.
	www.42explore.com /rabbits.htm (1629 words)

	Desert Diary, 7 February 2003--Rabbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ability of rabbits to make more rabbits is notorious--rapid reproduction is perhaps their main claim to fame.
		Eurasian and American rabbits have a long evolutionary history of confrontation with predators, with strong competition by each to survive-the rabbits by escaping and the predator by bringing down prey.
		Those rabbits who became most competent at avoidance survived to produce a generation of faster rabbits; only the best predators lived to reproduce a more efficient generation.
	museum.utep.edu /archive/mammals/DDrabbits.htm (270 words)

	The Science of Louis Pasteur: Part Two: Dialogue
		There were no rabbits in Austrailia at the time but one man brought them to his farm from Europe.
		I was invited to go to Australia and kill all the rabbits using the chicken cholera bacteria I had been working with.
		The problem with rabbits got worse and in 1950 another disease, myxamatosis, was used to kill very many of them.
	www.dialogueworks.co.uk /dw/wr/past2.html (765 words)

	The Pasteur Institute in Australia - Rabbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rabbits first arrived in Victoria, Australia, in 1859, when a grazier introduced a number of them to his property.
		It did not take the rabbits long to make themselves unwelcome: within twenty years, millions of rabbits had devastated the land.
		In an attempt to curb the rabbit population, the New South Wales Parliament voted in favour of the eradication of rabbits and offered financial rewards to whoever captured or killed any.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/exhib/pasteur/pasteur1.htm (292 words)

	Australia Advances - Rabbit Calicivirus
		In the 1950's CSIRO introduced myxomatosis which killed millions of rabbits, but eventually the rabbits became resistant and by 1995 had multiplied to an estimated 300 millions.
		In March 1995, a quarantine station was set up on tiny Wardang Island off the coast of South Australia to test Rabbit calicivirus, which had kept down rabbit populations in Europe.
		Scientists are also aware that because myxamatosis was only effective for 15 to 20 years, rabbits could also become resistant to calicivirus even though so far the results have been more dramatic.
	www.csiro.au /promos/ozadvances/Series5Rabbit.html (452 words)

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