Sentences with phrase «as rabbit starvation»

Early pioneers and trappers in North America encountered what looks like a similar affliction, sometimes referred to as rabbit starvation because rabbit meat is notoriously lean.

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«This trouble is worst, so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat - hunger known as rabbit - starvation.

According to an explorer Stefansson (in 1940s and 1950s), several weeks of eating only lean meat, such as rabbit or caribou meat, which contains very little fat, and eating no other food, can result in death due to so called «rabbit starvation syndrome» [47,96].

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.