More black rabbitsleecetheartistAugust 29 2016, 11:07:05 UTC
I was startled by coming across some black rabbits during a citizen science look-at-the-photos-and-list-the-species photo trap project in South Central Victoria.
All the rabbits I've seen in the Western Shield Camera Project on Zooniverse have been the standard brown though, although I wonder if this might change if the ones you saw down South spread.
I've not seen any black rabbits in the wild (perhaps unsurprisingly) but I saw some clearly domesticated black and white ones that some idiot must have released at Lake Monger. I think the council quietly removed them.
Stirling Council were very interested in the fox I saw about a week ago, and encourage reports. And then there's always FeralScan the app.
kleptoparasite flies! How cool! I'll have to look for those since they apparently have a nigh worldwide distribution (there's a word for that... pan something probably).
Found it. I was thinking of cosmopolitan distribution. Of course it is rarely true cosmopolitan distribution since places like the bottom of the Mariana Trench and Antarctica are usually excluded when loosely stating that, say, the red fox has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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All the rabbits I've seen in the Western Shield Camera Project on Zooniverse have been the standard brown though, although I wonder if this might change if the ones you saw down South spread.
I've not seen any black rabbits in the wild (perhaps unsurprisingly)
but I saw some clearly domesticated black and white ones that some idiot must have released at Lake Monger. I think the council quietly removed them.
Stirling Council were very interested in the fox I saw about a week ago, and encourage reports. And then there's always FeralScan the app.
If you have any neat feral photos - http://www.pestsmart.org.au/last-week-expose-feral/ but you've only got a few days.
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