Post by Azerane on Apr 12, 2012 17:28:53 GMT 9.5
I was away in the arid zone on a wildlife research trip for 6 days over the Easter break. Among the many wonderful species of native mammals, reptiles and birds, we also saw a couple of feral species. My friend got some feral cats photos on his camera trap set up along one of our pitfall lines (buckets in the ground that little animals fall into so you can ID them etc) and we also saw plenty of rabbits.
As much as I love rabbits, they are a terrible pest animal in Australia, they cause a lot of erosion and destabilise soils. The main area we saw rabbits was in the sand dune areas (which is even worse because a lot of the more threatened small mammal species rely on those areas), though there were tracks, diggings and droppings all over the place.
Long story short, we saw rabbits. They're pests, but I still like them so I took some photos, lol. The first was very obliging but in bad light. The second had fantastic light, but I couldn't get the little bugger to face me.
If people are interested, I'll post some images of some of the other bits and pieces we saw
The introduced rabbits in Aus are European Rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus.
As much as I love rabbits, they are a terrible pest animal in Australia, they cause a lot of erosion and destabilise soils. The main area we saw rabbits was in the sand dune areas (which is even worse because a lot of the more threatened small mammal species rely on those areas), though there were tracks, diggings and droppings all over the place.
Long story short, we saw rabbits. They're pests, but I still like them so I took some photos, lol. The first was very obliging but in bad light. The second had fantastic light, but I couldn't get the little bugger to face me.
If people are interested, I'll post some images of some of the other bits and pieces we saw
The introduced rabbits in Aus are European Rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus.
