Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole
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Australian Rabbit Population Growth
Human mediated changes to the landscape, like clear cutting of trees and the promotion of pasture lands also paved the way for rabbits. And from that time, rabbits overran the town in search of water. They ate the gardens and burrowed under the houses. Shopkeepers had to wire net their premises. The inspector of stock hunted two or three from under his bed each morning. School children killed so many on the way to and from school that the mayor had to employ a man with a cart to gather them up.
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