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Australia: Killer rabbits attack snakes (table has been turned)
Cairns Post (Australia) ^
| 09/15/09
| Sean Muir,
Posted on 09/16/2009 7:44:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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 propertys 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.
Im gobsmacked, its absolutely incredible.
We were watching from the veranda with a spotlight, and I thought, who is going to believe this, theyll think Im 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cairns.com.au ...
TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; rabbit; snake; wildlife
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To: shibumi
Nice!
Those don't get as far east as Georgia, though, or Jimmuh would have had a heart attack.
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posted on
09/16/2009 7:59:13 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Senior wildlife manager at the Cairns Wildlife Safari Paul O’Callaghan said he’d never heard of rabbits attacking snakes before but that didn’t mean it wasn’t possible.
“Animals are capable of learning, and it’s not impossible that these animals have learnt to deal with snakes in this way,” Mr O’Callaghan said. “They’re certainly taking a risk doing it though.”
'My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.'
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:00:35 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
To: shibumi
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:00:51 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Literally rabid? Or just plain hopping mad? No rabies in Australia. Just BunnyBadassitude.
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:02:16 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's ACORN" - pace Auric Goldfinger)
To: Oztrich Boy
Got into a kick fight with some kangaroos when they were kittens?
To: TigerLikesRooster
Instead of Pitbulls, the ‘hood punks could be using Peter Cottontails.
To: AZ .44 MAG
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:05:27 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: AnAmericanMother
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:05:29 PM PDT
by
sig226
(Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I am an underdog guy, I am glad these rabbits aren’t taking crap from the snakes. It IS Texas after all. Rabbits probably are just saying “We’re not going to be prey for you, we’re TEXAS rabbits.”
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:07:32 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Westlander
Those are actually a type of rabbit HPV wart that are picked up in the wild. They are treatable and they will eventually shrink and go away.
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:09:55 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Oztrich Boy
‘My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.’
BRAVO! BIGWIG!
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:12:24 PM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: Westlander
I don’t want that to be our Overbunny!
It Bugs me.
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:16:28 PM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
To: Secret Agent Man
A few years ago I had a fellow Texan send me a video of a Texas Jackrabbit attacking a rattlesnake. The rabbit drove the snake into a tree and then left. In 1964 at Laughlin AFB, Tx, a Texas Jackrabbit attacked a military dog at the South Gate...it sent the dog packing.
To: Secret Agent Man
Those are actually a type of rabbit HPV wart that are picked up in the wild. They are treatable and they will eventually shrink and go away.Maybe we should require HPVvaccination for all prepubescent bunnies.
Good enough for humans.
HPV = Hare papilloma (sp?)virus not human PV?
I don't even want to know how rabbits get the human form.
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:25:47 PM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Send them to Florida.
Next new sci-fi flick, Killer Rabbits Vs. Mutant Pythons
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:27:25 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: vetvetdoug
Those were rabbits with some kahones. Normally they will not do such things unless they are cornered and really have no other choice but to fight.
I like the rabbit mentality. You tend to keep to yourself, always alert to what’s going on around you, trying to live and let live, and if trouble comes your way first try to get the hell out of there, and if that isn’t possible, you fight like hell and make sure the other guy won’t ever do that to you or another one again.
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:27:52 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:52:27 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: AZ .44 MAG
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posted on
09/16/2009 8:53:58 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Secret Agent Man
39
posted on
09/16/2009 8:57:11 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Westlander
That’s Lepus Pretty Damn Biggus.
But not quite Lepus Gigantus. Give him a few more generations and check back in.
I watched Night of the Lepus in Jr. High and NOTHING I’ve seen here approaches the nightmares I suffered in the 70s. NOTHING!!!!
I need counseling only the public option can provide.
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posted on
09/16/2009 9:05:30 PM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
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