scholarly journals Assessing predictors of pellet persistence in European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus: towards reliable population estimates from pellet counts

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Fernandez-de-Simon ◽  
Francisco Díaz-Ruiz ◽  
Rafael Villafuerte ◽  
Miguel Delibes-Mateos ◽  
Pablo Ferreras
Keyword(s):  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
Population Estimates ◽  
Pellet Counts ◽  
European Rabbits

Diet of two fossorial herbivores in a seasonally snow-covered environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Green ◽  
N. E. Davis ◽  
W. A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Range Expansion ◽  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
Habitat Modification ◽  
Alpine Treeline ◽  
Winter Snow ◽  
Anthropogenic Habitat ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
European Rabbits ◽  
Elevational Range

To understand the recent elevational range expansion of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) with declining snow cover and earlier snow thaw we examined their diet in relation to that of long-term residents, common wombats (Vombatus ursinus). The colonisation of eastern Australia by rabbits was effectively completed by 1910 when they reached an elevation of 1500 m (the winter snowline). Rabbits began to penetrate higher elevations only from the 1970s in association with anthropogenic habitat modification. Since 2011, rabbits have occupied elevations to the alpine treeline (~1850 m) throughout the year without the ameliorating presence of infrastructure or anthropogenically modified vegetation. Rabbits and wombats are both grazers preferring grasses (largely inaccessible beneath winter snow) and are spatially restricted in their foraging by their need to return to their burrows. Wombats used a much wider foraging range, enabling them to select preferred food. Rabbits, with a much smaller range, were constrained in their choice of forage mainly to plants that projected above the snow. Unexpectedly, rabbits fed intensively on leaves of eucalypts, food not typically consumed in substantial quantities by this species. These leaves, on stems regenerating after fire, will diminish in availability as stems mature, possibly halting the range expansion of rabbits.

European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are Naturally Infected with Different Trypanosoma cruzi Genotypes

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 944-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carezza Botto-Mahan ◽  
Ricardo Campos ◽  
Aldo Solari ◽  
Mariana Acuña-Retamar ◽  
Pedro E. Cattan
Keyword(s):  
Trypanosoma Cruzi ◽  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
European Rabbits

Ontogeny of the responses of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to aerial and ground predators

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Pongrácz ◽  
Vilmos Altbäcker
Keyword(s):  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
Control Object ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Avoidance Behaviour ◽  
Antipredator Behaviour ◽  
Defensive Behaviour ◽  
Terrestrial Predator ◽  
European Rabbits ◽  
Predator Model ◽  
Quantitative Response

The responses of adult (6-9 months old) and young (5-8 weeks old) rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to their natural predators were tested. The aims of our experiments were to investigate whether (i) inexperienced rabbits would avoid a stuffed goshawk but not a non-bird-like control object and (ii) adult rabbits would behave differently toward an aerial and a terrestrial predator model on their first encounter, and (iii) to compare the inherited antipredator behaviour of adult and young rabbits toward the two types of predators. We tested only naïve rabbits and used a stuffed goshawk and fox as predators. Our results showed that under controlled laboratory conditions (i) a stuffed predator could elicit avoidance behaviour in rabbits without previous experience with predators; (ii) adult rabbits behaved differently toward the stuffed fox and goshawk; (iii) the behaviour of young rabbits was less differentiated, and their "quantitative" response developed into the adults' well-structured defensive behaviour without any experience with predators.

scholarly journals Widespread exposure to Sarcoptes scabiei in wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Spain

2012 ◽  
Vol 183 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Millán ◽  
R. Casáis ◽  
M. Delibes-Mateos ◽  
C. Calvete ◽  
C. Rouco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
Sarcoptes Scabiei ◽  
European Rabbits

Longevity record for a wild European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) from South Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Peacock ◽  
Ron G. Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Epidemiological Study ◽  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
South Australia ◽  
European Rabbit ◽  
Birth Date ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
European Rabbits ◽  
Haemorrhagic Disease

A population of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) has been monitored since November 1996 through mark–recapture as part of a longitudinal epidemiological study into two Australian rabbit biocontrol agents, rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) and myxomatosis. A female rabbit, first captured as a subadult in late November 1999, was recaptured 18 times before its final capture at the end of February 2007. The longevity of this rabbit, being from its calculated birth date to the date it was last captured, was 7.6 years. A review of the literature indicates this to be the longest lifespan recorded for a European rabbit in the wild.

Social rank, fecundity and lifetime reproductive success in wild European rabbits ( Oryctolagus cuniculus )

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich von Holst ◽  
Hans Hutzelmeyer ◽  
Paul Kaetzke ◽  
Martin Khaschei ◽  
Heiko Rödel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Oryctolagus Cuniculus ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Lifetime Reproductive Success ◽  
European Rabbits
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