TREE CLIMBING RABBIT.
GOES UP THIRTY FEET AFTER FOOD.
A recent report to the local Forest Service Office discloses an unusual feature in the destruction of minor growth by rabbits. Examination of a forest reserve in the southern part of the King Country shows that these animals have penetrated to a depth of about thirty chains, eating the bark from the base of the small trees, and also such foliage as they could reach. Leaning trees have been climbed and the bark gnawed from their upper surfaces, and in one such instance traces of the animals were found at a vertical height of thirty feet from the ground. The favourite victims amongst the undergrowth appear to be fiveJinger, karamu and raurekau. The exhaustion of the tussock pasture appears to have driven the rodent to a change of diet, but it is distinctly interesting to consider the possibility, revealed above, of bunny becoming arboreal in habit.
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Shannon News, 6 April 1923, Page 3
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155TREE CLIMBING RABBIT. Shannon News, 6 April 1923, Page 3
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