All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . e countless enemies, formen, dogs, cats, foxes, stoats, wea-sels, hedgehogs, crows, hawks, rats,snakes, and owls all murder therabbit, one half by day, the otherhalf by night; so there is not muchpeace for the poor bunny. On theother hand, the rabbit multiplies ata great rate if it is not kept instance, the rabbit was intro-duced into Australia and allowedto run wild in the bush. As theclimate of Australia is very mild and enemies are few in number, it soonoverran the land, and it has already cost the British Government millions toexterm
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . e countless enemies, formen, dogs, cats, foxes, stoats, wea-sels, hedgehogs, crows, hawks, rats,snakes, and owls all murder therabbit, one half by day, the otherhalf by night; so there is not muchpeace for the poor bunny. On theother hand, the rabbit multiplies ata great rate if it is not kept instance, the rabbit was intro-duced into Australia and allowedto run wild in the bush. As theclimate of Australia is very mild and enemies are few in number, it soonoverran the land, and it has already cost the British Government millions toexterminate it. In parts of California the rabbit is a great nuisance, and the people haveadopted a curious method for keeping down their number. Twice a yearhundreds of men from Fresno County meet together for a rabbit-drive. Anenclosure, about one hundred yards square, is made, writh an entrance to itten yards wide. From this entrance the fence-work then spreads outwards ina huge V. At a certain signal, the men form a line at the wide end of the V. THE RABBIT. and proceed, yelling and shouting, to drive all the rabbits down to the corral atthe bottom. Numbers of rabbits try to break through the line and are instantlykilled. At last the frightened creatures are driven into the corral, where theyare easily killed. Some idea of the size of these drives may be gained from thefact that between twenty and thirty thousand rabbits are killed in a single day. The favorite method of killing rabbits in England is by shooting themIn winter they are hunted with ferrets, which are turned into the warrens,while terriers watch the holes. Poachers catch rabbits by attaching loops ofbrass wire to the mouth of the burrow. Once a rabbit gets its head into aloose wire noose it does not know enough to draw back, but pushes on, strug-gling frantically, until it chokes itself. The tame rabbits are quite distinct from the wild rabbits. They havebeen so carefully bred that there are a number of fine species
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