MR MCGREGOR’s only desire was to keep Peter and his pesky playmates off his vegetable patch – and, if he got lucky, to make a pie out of them, according to Beatrix Potter. Meanwhile Elmer Fudd’s ...

Last month, a Dutch rabbit at the Tilden Park Little Farm started acting strangely. It had lost its appetite, lying in its hutch, head hanging, refusing to move. When staff at the free education farm ...

A WOMAN who lost all 12 of her pet rabbits is calling for the myxomatosis vaccine to be legalised in Australia. Lena Bodin, of Primrose Sands, lost her rabbits one-by-one this year to the disease, ...

All of the rabbits at the Little Farm at Tilden Regional Park died last month after contracting a viral illness. The farm’s seven Dutch rabbits fell ill and died after being infected with myxomatosis, ...

Rabbit farming, also known as cuniculture, is becoming increasingly popular in Kenya as an alternative agricultural venture. Their high reproductive rate coupled with low capital investment, high ...

Australia’s rabbit eats a quarter of the country’s pasturage. Cattlemen have tried poison, fences, shot & shell—all without success. Last week a new weapon promised to cut the rabbit down to size. The ...

When myxomatosis was accidentally imported* into England in 1953, the homeland of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail was horrified. Every rabbit from Penzance to the Orkneys, it seemed, was dying or dead.

Myxoma virus is a member of Leporipoxviridae whose tropism is tightly restricted to lagomorphs. In susceptible Oryctolagus rabbits, the virus causes a highly lethal disease known as myxomatosis, which ...

1. Exploiting synergies among diseases or parasites could increase the efficacy of biological control of invasive species. In Australia, two viruses were introduced to control European rabbits ...