You realise that rabbits were once so rare in Australia they had to be introduced to salve the British passion for killing small things?
The article claims:
The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today.
Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive species.
If true, there was a time when they were so rare as to be non existent.
From that time, until at most 1555 when:
... the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner could write that "there are few countries wherein coneys (rabbits) do not breed, but the most plenty of all is in England."
there was an interstitial period of decreasing rarity.
The article claims:
If true, there was a time when they were so rare as to be non existent.From that time, until at most 1555 when:
there was an interstitial period of decreasing rarity.