Sentences with phrase «rabbit population»

At that time, the mortality rate of virus infection was nearly 100 percent and the release led to a huge decrease in the European rabbit population.

Since then, many rabbit populations have grown resistant to the disease and in some places as many as 70 per cent of rabbits survive infection.

Do you think this program will continue to help the local rabbit population?

Things from tides to rabbit populations go through regular cycles, and it was easy to suppose that climate too was cyclical.

the raising and maintenance of rabbit populations easier, making them increasingly useful as a research tool.

[23] Seabird populations responded rapidly, [24] but rats and rabbits population increased after the cats were culled, and continued to cause widespread environmental damage.

The team collected and sequenced DNA from 14 wild rabbit populations and from six domestic breeds.

Improvements in the rabbits» health through better nutrition and sanitation has made the raising and maintenance of rabbit populations easier, making them increasingly useful as a research tool.

Based on evidence cited by USFWS itself, it's clear that a dramatic reduction in the number of free - roaming cats in the Keys (assuming it's possible — see below) will very likely have a negative impact on the marsh rabbit population — and may well lead to their extirpation from any Key where these rats are present.

The Amami rabbit population is at risk from feral cats on the island of Tokunoshima.

Persons concerned for the ecosystem have supported drastic reductions of rabbit populations by whatever means necessary.

«As well as suitable vegetation, there must be significant rabbit populations,» adds Palomares.

First introduced by an English settler as hunting fodder in 1859, the European rabbit population soon ballooned to an estimated 10 billion, contributing to extensive environmental damage and the extinction of some native species.

Rain, heat, famine and glut — there isn't anything that the ever - growing rabbit population doesn't encounter.

It's up to this brother and sister to keep the garden's rodent and rabbit population from overrunning the place, and Acer takes this job very seriously.

In the wild, rabbits stay trim, fit and healthy because they are surrounded by the foods they evolved to eat — rabbit populations thrive in areas that are full of hay, grasses, and other plants that help them reproduce successfully.

Substantial numerical decline in South Australian rabbit populations following the detection of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2

So if you've ever wanted to have your own wolf pack, fly like an eagle, ride a bear or even just have the entire rabbit population bow their fuzzy ears to you, this is the game.

In another poor attempt at taming the situation, scientists set the Myxoma virus (which spreads a disease called myxomatosis that is lethal to rabbits) upon an unsuspecting rabbit population, with brutally effective results.

What is more humane or less humane: to let the feral cats continue to annihilate our native quail and rabbit populations in the wild or to install a program that can keep up with the breeding ability of these cats?

This is caused by the myxoma virus, which is widely distributed in the wild rabbit population.

Nothing at all about the marsh rabbit population.

So far, about 2,200 cats have been neutered, and the Amami rabbit population is already seeing a comeback.

The rabbit population must be kept in some balance with others.

The release of the two rabbit biocontrol agents - Myxoma virus and Rabbit Calicivirus - led to a dramatic reduction of Australia's rabbit population and has recovered more than $ 70 billion to the agricultural industries since 1950.

But once this predator was removed, the rabbit population exploded.

«These two phenomena together led to a rebound of the rabbit population,» Rothenburg said.

The Iberian lynx is threatened by poaching, road kills, habitat loss and lack of prey following a series of disease outbreaks in the rabbit populations.

Students then explore how the color of the rabbit population changes as the environment changes over time.

In some rabbit populations the rate of malignant uterine cancer (specifically called uterine adenocarcinoma) can approach 80 % of all the females.

Neutering rabbits makes them happier and healthier and enables them to live as bonded pairs or groups, meeting social needs without increasing rabbit population.

In fact, in some rabbit populations, incidents of malignant uterine cancer have been documented as high as 80 %.

This is a flea that is specific for rabbits, it was released into Australia in 1993 to try and aid the spread of Myxomatosis in the wild rabbit population.

As the numbers of cats declined, the last having been killed in 2000, the rabbit population increased, to an estimated 100,000 by 2007 ---- and rabbit damage to bird nesting habitat proved far more damaging to the sea bird population than cat predation ever had been.

Myxomatosis This disease was originally used to control the rabbit population in France, but from there spread across the European continent, even to Britain, and over the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.

Read up on the subsequent biological weapons of mass destruction used in a vain attempt to control the rabbit population.