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Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail had their moments of mischief, but they were generally gentle, carefree and lovable little creatures. In fact, they possessed most of the virtues that real rabbits do not have. For, says Naturalist Ronald M. Lockley in Britain's New Scientist, rabbits are usually unhappy and just as mean as they can manage...
...what it means in the complicated economy of nature. Winter visitors to New York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...
When myxomatosis was accidentally imported* into England in 1953, the homeland of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail was horrified. Every rabbit from Penzance to the Orkneys, it seemed, was dying or dead. Stricken animals with grotesquely swollen heads hobbled aimlessly on highways, and carcasses lay stinking in ditches...
Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...
Other seasons that are now open are those for snoeshow hare, cottontail rabbit, jackrabbit, oppossum, raccoon, and black bear. Locals think the bear season a joke of the Division of Fisheries and Game; but, in any case, bears are very scarce, as are oppossum and raccoon. Rabbits, needless to say, are not scarce...