Rabbits are very cute but they have a numbers thing going for them. They profusely inhabit some of our favourite childhood stories and they can profusely inhabit the landscape. Like blackbirds, which are also very beautiful in their own way, rabbits were “brought out” from the old country arriving with the first fleet and blackbirds by a bird dealer visiting Melbourne in 1857. The rabbit, though domesticated in Europe, went wild in Australia in plague proportions. This numbers thing, battled by hunting, myxomatosis and calicivirus (which is presently failing) belies just how cute they are.