why we have rabbits in Australia & whose grave to kick

The early UK-born settlers wanted to make Australia like Home (notice the capital letter - even in the 1980's when I met my father's cousins, they asked if I'd been Home - No, I said, I've never been to the UK, and they were the Australian-born grand-daughters of Irish & Scottish grandmothers.) A primrose from England, 1856

The settlers carefully planted European plants & naturally imported plants take over! & as some idiot decided to import animals mentioned by Shakespeare, eventually sparrows take over eastern Australia but are stopped at West Australian border!

A few feral animals

Here's something pretty to look at Jeannie Baker's Story of Rosy Dock

sandra

Trivia - do you know why rabbits breed like rabbits? - according to a rabbit owning colleague, newborn bunnies don't have external sexual characteristics, so by the time (just days!) he noticed that one was a male, it had impregnated all the females, which is why he ended up with over 80 rabbits in a very short time. I had told him to put them in individual cages, but ...