In agricultural areas, the explosion in numbers is placing pressure on already valuable pasture and cropping resources, ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat of Australia, as it grew to the size of a kitten. Once a relatively ...

A new biological agent to destroy rabbits will be developed under a new national partnership, four years after funding for a ...

Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names—wild boar, venison, and lapin—these could all be served in a Michelin-star ...

Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is calling on rural and regional Australians to join in the longest-running citizen science survey of rabbit diseases in the world, to help keep the ...

Adelaide, Australia: This "convention" of feral rabbits is a common sight in the "Outback" frontier country near Adelaide, South Australia. How does domestication change wild animals? When ...

In 1859, Thomas Austin introduced European rabbits to Australia for sport, inadvertently unleashing an ecological disaster. From just two dozen, their population exploded to hundreds of millions by ...