Australia: Killer rabbits attack snakes (table has been turned)

Cairns Post (Australia) ^ | 09/15/09 | Sean Muir,

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Killer rabbits attack snakes

Sean Muir, Tablelander

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

© The Cairns Post

 

A PAIR of rabid rabbits has been caught killing a series of snakes near Cairns.

For three weeks Armando Del Manso believed his dog was responsible for the dead snakes showing up with teeth marks all over them on his East Barron property’s lawn each morning.

But it turns out it was a pair of rampaging rabbits killing the snakes.

Pictures: Cairns snakes

The 42-year-old boilermaker first made the discovery Tuesday night when he spotted the two wild rabbits attacking a king brown snake.

“The snake was raised up in the air in the striking position and the two rabbits worked their way around him and killed him in two minutes,” Mr Del Manso said.

“I’m gobsmacked, it’s absolutely incredible.

“We were watching from the veranda with a spotlight, and I thought, who is going to believe this, they’ll think I’m crazy.”

Rabbit attacks snake on video

Killer instinct: East Barron resident Armando Del Manso says wild rabbits are responsible for the deaths of a series of snakes at his home.

 

Bitten to death: One of the snakes that Armando Del Manso saw being attacked by rabbits.

 

Victims: A king brown and brown tree snake that were killed by rabbits.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Clearly, there are Rambo rabbits out there. In S. Korea, there was a report on a rabbit living in a Buddhist temple, where many stray cats happen to roam. During the day, it is a cuddly nice rabbit, friendly to visitors and monks. At night, it turns into a Rambo, attacking anything approaching it, including friendly monks. It spends night right in the center of a courtyard. Flat ground within 30 feet radius. That way, cats cannot sneak in and ambush it, I suppose.

[Red in Blue PA]

My guess is that we will hear this is tied to global warming somehow.

[Clintonfatigued]

Is this the killer rabbit that Jimmy Carter saw?

[darkwing104]

Oh no...I wonder if he is the descendant of the killer bunny from the Holy Grail...

Kind of cool though...

[AnAmericanMother]

First in with inevitable Monty Python pic:

[AnAmericanMother]

Although you beat me with the reference . . . .!

[G Larry]

“Night of the Lepus”

[redangus]

The most vile rodent(s) you’ve ever seen.

[ZinGirl]

i'm sure we're competing for references!

[steve86]

I am feeling ambivalent about this development.

[llevrok]

Killer rabbits?

Curious that this should come up the same day as Jimmuh Cartah makes a fool of himself. Conspiracy, me things.

[AZ .44 MAG]

Lepus maraudus ping.

Beware the bunny!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Too bad the bunny didn’t eat America’s hemmorhoid.

[shibumi]

Followed closely by the fearsome Texas Jackalope.....

[AZ .44 MAG]

Lepus Gigantus is coming for you.

We are your Overbunnies.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Literally rabid? Or just plain hopping mad?

[AnAmericanMother]

The other killer wabbit.

I am embarassed that I am from the same state as this anti-semitic old dement.

[Westlander]

You mean a couple of killer rabbits escaped from the Wrath of Jimmuh?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Right. In large numbers, they could attack anything. Times are certainly changing when rabbits go ‘rabid.’ :-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

I suspect the latter.