| | | Geography | | There Are Billions of Feral Rabbits in Australia | | In 1859 a landowner in Winchelsea, Victoria imported 24 wild rabbits from England and released them into the wild for sport hunting. Within a number of years, those 24 rabbits multiplied into millions. By the 1920s, the rabbit population in Australia ballooned to an estimated 10 billion, reproducing at a rate of 18 to 30 per female rabbit per year. | | | | | | | |  | | READ THESE | | | | | | | | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Today I Learned newsletter.
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