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...reach more than two feet into the air to snap off small limbs." The voracious creature that stirred the Australian orchardist to complain to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board seemed fearsome indeed. But it was easily identified. After having been nearly down and out Down Under, the wild rabbit is staging an ominous and increasingly destructive comeback...
Australia's perennial problems with rabbits seemed all but over in 1950, when scientists deliberately introduced myxomatosis, a mosquito-carried viral disease that quickly killed off as much as 90% of the nation's 500 million furry, long-eared pests. Since the great epizootic, though, both the virus and the rabbits have undergone mutations; many of the new strains of the myxomatosis virus are relatively harmless, and new generations of animals have developed immunity to even the more virulent strains. As a result, Australia's rabbit population has doubled in the oast several years...
Tons of diced carrots containing a newly developed lethal poison have been dropped from planes onto rabbit-infested areas of New South Wales, a technique that has effected a 90% kill in some areas. The trouble is that most of Australia's rabbits have proved unwilling to leave their immediate territory to seek out poisoned bait. And since the poison-spreading planes can cover only limited areas, this rabbit reticence has severely limited the effectiveness of the poison campaign...
Potential Fare. Thanks to Franey, the menu at any orange-topped Howard Johnson restaurant around the U.S. now includes Welsh rabbit, chicken stroganoff, veal scallopini, lamb curry and seafood thermidor. "We're upgrading gradually," says Franey. "You have to keep the average American in mind. But maybe some day we're going to serve caviar at Howard Johnson...
Like Brer Rabbit. He left it hanging in the Hill, though, and somehow a tantalizing rumor spread through the art market that there was something up at Christie's. Soon everyone in the trade was haunting the Hill and sniffing the air, each desperately trying to look at the painting without being caught looking at the painting. Indulging in a price-piquing little auction-house charade, Christie's directors twice escorted London's National Gallery director, Sir Philip Hendy, past the painting, slyly watched his reaction. Said one later: "He just sat tight like Brer Rabbit...