Thomas Austin, an English settler who’d moved to Australia, decided he needed something fun to hunt. In 1859, he imported 13 rabbits to the continent (along with other non-native animals). These rabbits did what rabbits do and by the end of the century Australia was overrun. They bred too quickly and there weren’t enough predators—including human hunter…
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