Rare Japanese Rabbit Leaves Endangered Species List [Updated]
January 15th, 2013 |
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Japan has removed the rare, nocturnal, island-dwelling Amami black rabbit (aka the Ryukyu rabbit, Pentalagus furnessi) from its endangered species list, according to a report from The Telegraph. The rabbits can only be found on the remote islands of Amami Oshima and Toku-no-Shima, part of the Ryukyu archipelago located about 350 kilometers south of mainland [...]
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Researchers Capture Fleeting Images of Incredibly Rare Sumatran Rabbit [Video]
May 30th, 2012 |
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Blink and you might miss it. A team of researchers studying leopards and other cats on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has instead captured a few seconds worth of video of the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri), a species so rare and elusive that it has only been photographed three times previously, in 1998, 2000 [...]
Keep reading »Deadly Rabbit Disease May Have Doomed Iberian Lynx
July 12th, 2011 |
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The 1988 arrival of viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD) in Spain devastated that country’s European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) population and, in the process, possibly doomed the local species most adapted to hunt rabbit, the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus). The wildcat is now critically endangered, with an estimated 100 to 200 animals remaining in the wild. That [...]
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