Recently, there has been an interesting problem in zhihu, which has aroused the heated attention and discussion of many people, that is, the rabbit plague that has plagued Australia for more than a hundred years, we all know that Chinese eat a large number of rabbits every year, so can Chinese help Australia eat rabbits, so as to solve the problem of the flood of hares in Australia for more than a hundred years? It is such an interesting topic that has aroused the controversy of many Chinese people, some of them think it is okay, and some of them think it is not.
Of course, not all Chinese like to eat rabbits, like to eat rabbits of the masses are mainly concentrated in Sichuan, according to relevant statistics, on average, every Sichuanese people have to eat 4 rabbits per year, then that is to say, Sichuan's 83.72 million people, almost 300 million rabbits per year, then the interesting thing is coming, that is, if all of us in other provinces also start to eat rabbits, then according to the proportion of Sichuan population and China's 1.4 billion population to calculate, That is to say, we can eat 5 billion rabbits a year Chinese, so that we can help Australia eat all the rabbits in two years, so as to truly solve the problem of rabbit plague in Australia.
So what exactly does the facts look like? Why is there a rabbit plague in Australia?
You may not believe it, that is, a British official from the British nobility, when the British came to Australia to develop, in a relatively leisure time, there is nothing to do like to hunt, but there is a problem, that is, there are no wild animals in the local area, so he brought 24 European rabbits to the island, which is also prepared in advance for hunting, afterwards these rabbits were not caught back, and then on the Australian soil continue to breed and take root, the result is never expected, There are only 24 rabbits from Europe, but in just a few decades, the final crazy breeding of more than 10 billion hares, this sounds very exaggerated, I believe that at this time everyone will also have a question, that is, only 24 rabbits, how can there be such a huge population? You must know that there are rabbits in China and rabbits in the United States, why hasn't this happened?
In fact, you may not know that as early as 200 million years ago, there was only one continent on the earth, that is, the Pangu Continent, which is often called Pangu Continent, only about 180 million years ago, because of the movement of the earth's crust divided into multiple continents, Australia has become an island, and it is precisely because this island has become the key to the rapid reproduction of rabbits, so what happened to make these 24 rabbits breed wildly in a short period of time?
In fact, this has to start from 45,000 years ago, when a group of Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they can be said to eat wherever they went, which also led to the local large carnivores are almost extinct, because Australia is an isolated island, other large animals are difficult to migrate, and it is precisely because of this, rabbits have no natural enemies, so rabbits live very comfortably in this land of Australia, in fact, just like humans now, we are not because there are no natural enemies, so now the earth is full of humans? In fact, not only rabbits, but also wild dogs, wild cats, foxes, and also floods in Australia, and the reason for this factor is that there is no natural enemy just mentioned, which shows how important the ecological balance of the food chain is, otherwise there would be no such problems in Australia.
So can Chinese eat all the rabbits? How did Australia fight a century-long war with rabbits?
Indeed, these rabbits have no survival pressure, the survival rate of offspring is also greatly improved, and rabbits also have two uterus, they can not only conceive separately, but also give birth to 4 to 8 rabbits per litter, especially the newborn rabbits do not take long, and can be regenerated immediately, this ability is much stronger than humans, and it is precisely because of this that eventually these rabbits are snowballing and rolling bigger and bigger, and finally rolling to 10 billion, and more importantly, these rabbits are still increasing. Australia also because of the emergence of these rabbits, began to have a chain reaction, so that the living space of other animals has been continuously squeezed, but also indirectly led to the extinction of some animals.
For example, rabbits love to burrow, then they will destroy the quality of the soil, at the same time these rabbits will also eat leaves and turf, even seedlings do not let go, which also makes the original green grassland into a bare wasteland, I have to say that rabbits in our eyes are definitely not like pests, but so many, but also let them and pests no difference, it can be said that if they are not controlled, then Australia's ecological chain may collapse from now on, seriously will implicate human society, Even upsetting the planet's ecological balance.
So here's the interesting question, is Chinese can they help them eat all these rabbits? In fact, there are two waves of people who have different views, that is, they think that if all Chinese can be like the Sichuan people, then China can eat 5 billion rabbits every year, naturally these 10 billion rabbits only need two years to be cleared, but the other part of the people do not think so, they think that this involves the birth rate, from the development of 24 rabbits so far, you can imagine how fast its reproduction rate, if you eat 5 billion rabbits per year according to the Chinese. That is to say, more than 10 million rabbits can be eaten every day, but because the number of rabbits in Australia is too large, the future birth rate may increase geometrically, which means that even if all the Chinese come to eat, it will not be eaten.
Indeed, since 1890, the Australian rabbit population has reached 36 million, in 1926 has exceeded 10 billion, this incident also shocked the world at that time, and it is precisely because of this, Australia also began to start a century-long war with rabbits, and now although there is no news that rabbits have developed to what extent, but there is news that Australians have killed 90% of rabbits by bombing rabbits by creating viruses, but the other 10% The rabbit has been evolved in the process, and the gas bomb has failed, which means that now the rabbit has begun to reproduce again, and no one knows how far it will develop in the future, but I think at this time, if Chinese start eating Australian rabbits, then maybe in theory it can really help Australia solve the rabbit plague. But I think Chinese why should I eat rabbits? It's like eating enough, isn't it okay to find something?
What do you think about that? Do you think Chinese can help Australia eat up its rabbits? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.