Mention of rabbits, for Sichuan friends must be very interested, after all, Sichuan's spicy rabbit head is very famous, and "no rabbit can run out of Sichuan alive", every year in the "Eleventh Golden Week" there will be tens of thousands of people who love food rush to Chengdu to taste the most authentic "spicy rabbit head" there. And there is a country that almost perished because of this cute and "delicious" animal. The reason is that the number of rabbits in that country has reached as many as 10 billion, and "biological and chemical weapons" have been used to eliminate rabbits.
Military Network - Australia, with 7.69 million square kilometers, why has it been sparsely populated for three hundred years?
This country is Australia, australia is the only country in the world that covers a whole continent, where it is surrounded by the sea on all sides and has an excellent ecological environment, once called "the paradise in the ocean", also known as Australia. Australia was once an island used by the British to exile prisoners.
In 1859, the British fleet escorted prisoners to Australia with a dozen rabbits. At that time, there was no concept of alien species, and Australia itself was sparsely populated, and the forests and grasslands were relatively lush, so the locals were very happy to accept the little guests and stock them on the grasslands.
The rabbit was also very satisfied when he arrived in the new environment. After all, Australia not only has a warm climate and rich vegetation, which is very suitable for survival, but there are no natural enemies of rabbits there. As a result, rabbits multiply in Australia. Within a few years, Australia was full of wild rabbits running wild.
What started out as a handful of rabbits had grown to about 10 billion by 1920. As a consequence of its flooding, the pasture that had been endless was about to be depleted. Moreover, rabbits also have the characteristic of digging holes, which makes the roots of those pastures damaged, which has a direct impact on the development of animal husbandry. Animal husbandry happens to be Australia's mainstay industry, and due to the destruction of rabbits, their total annual output value has declined.
When Australia discovered that the ecological balance had been severely damaged, they immediately thought about measures to deal with the species that threatened them, such as bringing in rabbits, foxes, or calling on all Australians to hunt rabbits, but these had little effect. Because the vitality of rabbits is very tenacious, the endless stream of rabbits has reached the point of chilling.
In desperation, Australia first bombed with bombers, although it was contained, but it was short-lived, and the problem was not completely solved. After that, Australian biologists specially developed a virus to curb the reproductive ability of rabbits, and then the Australian Air Force dropped poison gas bombs in areas where rabbits are more concentrated, which brought the development of the situation under control. And the crisis of national subjugation in Australia almost caused by rabbits has also been lifted.