>You realise that rabbits were once so rare in Australia they had to be introduced to salve the British passion for killing small things?
There were no rabbits in Australia, until they were introduced by humans (intentionally or otherwise).
There were no rabbits in Australia, until they were introduced by humans (intentionally or otherwise).
On Christmas day 1859 Thomas Austin, a self-made wealthy settler, released 13 European wild rabbits on his estate, Winchelsea, Barwon Park, Victoria. They had been specially collected and sent to him by a relative in England.
... To put the dissemination into context, the spread of rabbits over Britain took 700 years while the colonisation of two-thirds of Australia, an area 25 times the size of Britain, took only 50 years. The rate of spread of the rabbit in Australia was the fastest of a colonising mammal anywhere in the world.
as were pigs, dogs, chickens, horses, donkeys, camels, cane toads, cats and other fauna (and flora and funga).