Saturday, April 18, 2015

AT LEAST THEY AREN'T BREEDING LIKE CANE TOADS

The whiskers of 58 species of lagomorphs are atwitch  at the news that Tony's answer to  Thomas Galton,  Eric Worrall has moved on from DIY meteorology ( "High sunspot count is associated with warm weather..." ) to rabbit population punditry :
"it is futile, in my opinion...Even biological warfare has failed to contain the rabbit plague. Australia runs one of the most advanced biological warfare laboratories in the world, dedicated to finding new rabbit specific plagues... The research is ongoing, because nothing works for long. When a virulent new disease, or a genetically modified version of an old disease is released, the rabbit population crashes, but within a few years it bounces back, as adaptions for resistance to the new disease spread rapidly through the population.
The reason for this adaptability is that rabbits breed like, er rabbits..."