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Rabbits
and Hares
Ref no: 111
Price:
£10.50
Description: Gives fascinating information about the habits and life style. Male rabbits, for instance, have an intriguing knack of passing out after copulation and falling off their mates.
The female rabbits’ idea of parenting involves just one visit of three minutes duration to feed their young
every 24 hours. Despite this, the babies seem to thrive on this.
One of the problems with rabbits is their numbers. In Australia huge rabbit-proof fences were erected (no. 1 fence being 1,100 miles long and taking 5 years to build) yet none of them worked.
Myxomatosis was introduced in Britain in the 1950's and wiped out 99.99% of the population with enormous effects on the British landscape
- including dire results for orchids, the large blue butterfly and the stoat.
Due to increasing immunity, rabbit numbers are on the up and have reached 20% of pre-myxomatosis levels. The author discusses humane methods of control - including a possible rabbit contraceptive!
Hares on the other hand are not on the increase, partly because modern agricultural practices mean that less stubble is kept during the winter - this used to provide the hare with food. They too have some interesting habits, including racing up and down airfields, alongside aeroplanes, and sitting in circles watching other hares frolicking in the centre.
Features:
Paperback
Written by Anne McBride
127 pages (almost every page features an illustration, line drawing or map)
Approx 21cm x 15cm
Published by Whittet Books
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