Sentences with phrase «rabbit populations by»

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

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Domestication practices were well known by then, Andersson says, and it's possible that French monks or farmers in Southern France with a taste for rabbit meat made an effort to round up bunnies that eventually became the founding population for the domestic rabbit.

It is therefore a lot easier to decimate a population of 100,000 mammoths than a population of 100,000 rabbits, which reproduce twice a year and birth by litter.

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.

We have used genome - wide data and a population genetic approach to dissect the genetic basis of reproductive isolation in the European rabbit by taking advantage of natural hybridization between subspecies in the Iberian Peninsula.

The study, led by Penn State University scientists, assessed the infection dynamics of two species of soil - transmitted parasites in a population of rabbits in Scotland every month for 23 years.

While dogs are known to catch and kill rabbits, turtles, frogs and lizards, «outside» cats are by far more damaging to wildlife populations.

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

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.

Napa Humane promotes a healthy and safe pet population by providing low cost vaccinations and microchipping for dogs and cats — and microchipping for rabbits.

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.

Myxomatosis is a disease caused by infection with the Myxoma virus, a pathogen deliberately introduced to Australia in an attempt to control populations of wild rabbits.

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.