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.

[Defiant]

Gooooo mammals!

[Zoe Brain]

Well... these are *Australian* Rabbits after all.

“Both the flora and fauna of the continent is extremely dangerous, as Death’s Library attests. A book series known as “Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita” extends at least into “Volume 29c Part Three”, while a list of the harmless ones contains only “Some of the sheep.” There are few poisonous snakes in XXXX, the explanation for this being that “most of them have been eaten by the spiders”.”

Or the Rabbits.

[tophat9000]

Yea Jimmy Carter open his big yap in the news and MSM run a story about how there really are killer rabbits?... typical ;>

[Salamander]

But does it have big, nasty pointy teeth?

[Fire_on_High]

I knew I couldn’t be the only person who thought of Watership Down from this.

[AussieJoe]

“Well... these are *Australian* Rabbits after all.”

I’m not surprised by this.... there’s not much around here that *doesn’t* kill other animals and/or humans.

[Dusty Road]

Only one problem with that video, it's about 4 years old It's made it's way around the net several time's. The first time I seen it they claimed it was in Barton Spring’s TX. It looks like your average Cotton Tail and your average Coach Whip, both native to TX.