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10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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When it comes to rabbits, everyone's first impression may be that the cute and loving domestic rabbit rabbit or the spicy spicy rabbit head

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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However, in a country in the southern hemisphere, the people there hate the rabbits to the bone, and they are eager to eliminate all the rabbits in order to solve their hatred. What is it that makes local residents hate cute bunny rabbits so much?

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

This country is the only country in the world to occupy a continent alone, due to the local geographical location is very special, under the influence of the monsoon floods frequently, resulting in 80% of the land has become desert, very unfavorable to the protection of biodiversity, simply put, the local species is single, easy to be destroyed by alien species, and the place is surrounded by oceans on all sides, isolating the communication between local species and the outside world.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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When the naturally evolved species in the area encounter those alien species that have survived the competition, there is no suspense that they will be abused to the skin, and even the native species will be almost extinct, which is biological invasion. So, from the moment an alien species is brought to the local area, its ecology is destined to suffer a fatal blow.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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There is no doubt that the rabbit is an exotic species in this country. The country was once a British colony, and in the 18th century, many European immigrants came here to live here, and one of them, Thomas, was very fond of hunting, but there were very few living creatures in the country to meet his hunting needs

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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So he brought 24 rabbits from his hometown in England, and it was these 24 rabbits, which multiplied wildly in this country that lacked natural enemies and had plenty of food, and finally went out of control, reaching a staggering 10 billion.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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Such a large rabbit population has brought a huge impact on the country's ecosystem, causing the extinction of many native species, not only the natural environment has been fatally hit, but also brought a lot of trouble to the local residents.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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Can't beat a rabbit? Is it that people can't do it or is rabbit too strong? There are ten billion rabbits in this country, but no one eats them, why is that?

In the local area, because these rabbits eat too well, their weight has soared, some have reached the weight of dozens of pounds, and some have even weighed more than a hundred, comparable to the weight of an adult woman, these rabbits often run to farmers' homes in groups of three or five to steal grain, and even dare to rob the food of passers-by on the road, which is really a veritable 'rogue rabbit'.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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The street in our country are all ground snakes, people are good, and people's are all ground heads.

Some people may think, just rabbits, can't a person even do a bunch of rabbits, you are not alone with this idea, a local farmer is working in the field and finds that there is a group of rabbits stealing crops on his farm, when he picked up the nail rake and chased it without saying a word, it was bound to teach the rabbits who stole food a little lesson.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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As a result, the rabbits were not in danger, the soldiers were divided into two ways, the front wave of rabbits attracted the attention of the old farmers, and the back wave of rabbits took the opportunity to give him a move of rabbit kicking eagle, instantly kicking him to the ground, until the nearby villagers found him, only to avoid the siege of the rabbits

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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So, where is this country dominated by rabbits? It turns out that this country is Australia.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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As the rabbits' behavior became more and more rampant, it eventually attracted the attention of the Australian ZF. Slowly, the Australian ZF began to issue decrees to stop the crazy growth of the number of rabbits, such as banning the local breeding of rabbits as pets, but this was not put in the eyes of the rabbits, the eyes of the rabbits were the stars and the sea, the vast wilderness and grasslands outside, and only the prohibition of breeding did not affect the number of rabbits.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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ZF saw that this trick was useless, immediately changed other tricks, and began to hold a variety of rabbit hunting competitions, large-scale hunting of rabbits in the wild. But the devil is one foot tall, the road is one foot high, the rabbit is not afraid, the rabbit can be born. Rabbits can breed the next generation when they grow to four months, the breeding cycle is 40 days, a litter can give birth to five to eight, equivalent to a rabbit can give birth to nearly forty rabbits a year, so the loss of the number of rabbits brought by hunting is far less than the reproductive ability of rabbits.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

Australian hares are flooded, ten billion hares, foxes can't eat them. Locals don't eat rabbits, so a large number of rabbits can't be exported?

The government saw that humans could not defeat the rabbits, so let your natural enemies rule over you, so they introduced foxes to eliminate rabbits, and what they never expected was that foxes came to this rabbit-everywhere place and began the buffet mode

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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In the face of so many rabbits, the cunning fox certainly does not bother to catch those strong rabbits, but first to the old and weak sick and disabled, the result is that the fox is fed a wide body fat, shiny and slippery, the rabbits have also experienced a round of survival of the fittest, leaving a batch of rabbits with good genes and more difficult to deal with.

There was no way, the government had to rely on itself, began to build a fence, once built more than 3,000 kilometers, just to trap the rabbits and rabbits inside

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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But they forgot a little, as the saying goes, the rabbits three caves, the rabbits can make holes, so the rabbits dug a lot of holes under the fence, in and out at will, the government saw that the project it had spent so much effort to build was toyed with by the rabbits, and it was almost crazy. It seems that physical attacks are not useful to rabbits, so use magic to defeat magic, and the government introduces a virus called myxooma to poison rabbits.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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The virus is harmless to other organisms, but it can achieve a mortality rate of up to 99% for rabbits. Soon, the use of this virus brought great effect, the field was covered with rabbit corpses, but the good times were not long, the rabbits and rabbits quickly produced antibodies in their bodies, immune to this virus, and when the next spring came, the rabbits began to breed wildly again.

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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Someone asked, why not export these rabbits? After all, China is a big country that eats rabbits, and Sichuan alone can show off 300 million rabbit heads a year. In fact, there are many reasons why Australia chooses not to export, first of all, because there are basically a small amount of virus in the rabbits in the Australian wild today, who wants to eat food containing viruses?

10 billion rabbits, conquering Australia, the locals dare to be angry and dare not eat

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And in the sparsely populated Australia want to catch hares is not an easy task, it takes a huge amount of manpower, so to export you can only choose artificially raised rabbits, but the cost of raising rabbits in Australia is higher than other regions, in order not to let rabbits infected with the virus, to give them a lot of vaccines, this is the reason for the high cost of raising rabbits, so the price of export will be high, naturally there are not too many consumers willing to buy.

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