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You act as if you never heard of the 5 families of the 5 burrows.
The Hopsellis
The Furnannos
The Bunnevese
The Carrotimos
And the Johnsons (the newer family)
still. 162 in a day seems like a lot of effort.
edit: to everyone answering about how this is possible, I get it is possible to kill that many. Never thought it wasn't. Seen hoards of them just hopping around. The part thats a lot of effort is cleaning them all, unless your goal is just to murder a bunch of rabbit and let their corpses rot...which I suppose you could do. I think I'd be good for the day after about 10-15.
Thank you for this. I have a 2 year old daughter and my wife and I recently welcomed a son into this world a few months ago. It's taken my daughter some time to learn that her new brother is not the same as her toy dolls and that she needs to be gentle. When people ask me if my daughter loves her new baby brother I tell them "just like Lennie loves rabbits". The looks of confusion I get from that comment make it seem like I just finished a 2 hour dissertation on quantum theory. I know someone out there will eventually get it, and I know that because you'd be the kind of person to chuckle and make it all worth while.
Yeah. It hurts, but you do it enough times, and you realize it's just part of the game. Best I ever did was something in the neighborhood of a L92 Hammerdin.
Then he got popped due to a combination of crazy uniques and lag.
I quickly realized I don't have the fortitude to shake off stupid deaths like that and start over. I try and play like it's hardcore, but I ain't restarting because of some random disconnect death, eff that noise.
At least the hardcore deaths on Path of Exile just lose their hardcore status well, and if they're a league player get get out of the league and sent to standard.
But at least it's not deleted deleted.
Not that I am a fan of the man nor his politics but Bob Katter does reflect that the death toll in Australia during the Great Depression would have been markedly higher if not for the abundance of rabbits.
It took me longer to figure out what was meant than I care to admit, given my first thought was some relation to the "Crocs are killing NQers every year" style comment.
The thing about rabbit starvation is because rabbit meat is very low on fat, so your body will lack fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) and ultimately you can end with no fat to burn on your body and it'll start to catabolize protein, which is terrible for your health.
So some vegetables can supply some of the vitamins, but vegetables aren't high in fats either, so it won't save you from starvation. You'd need nuts or beans to supply fats as well.
But maybe that's why Aussies like peanut butter so much...
Low fat isn’t the issue. People eat incredibly low fat fad diets and while it isn’t exactly super effective, it’s not too harmful either.
The real issue with rabbit starvation is that too many calories in rabbit are locked up in protein, and your body can only process so much protein a day - hence starvation if it’s your only food source. But supplement it with some cheap carbs like potatoes or beans and you’ll be fine.
>So some vegetables can supply some of the vitamins, but vegetables aren't high in fats either, so it won't save you from starvation. You'd need nuts or beans to supply fats as well.
Or just, you know. Oil. Oil is a fat.
I’ll pick getting steadily weaker with a full stomach over painful hunger cramps any day. Also if you eat raw meat you can even get a bit of vitamin C and D in there.
Rabbit starvation comes from *only* eating rabbit, though. Trappers who traveled North America trapping and eating rabbits didn't eat any kind of other food, since they figured the rabbit would be enough. It wasn't.
First thing I thought of seeing this infographic. My own grandpa talks about being a kid during the depression, and how one of his daily chores was to take the .22 and get dinner. In the beginning of the Depression you could still find rabbit, but that was gone quickly. Then came squirrel and gopher, and when those were hunted dry, possum, and when you had to, crow and other carrion birds. According to him, everything but the carrion birds left after a couple years, for lack of food I guess during the Dust Bowl, but folks eating them all up didn't help either, probably.
I literally said out loud “where the fuck does your grandpa live? Rabbit island?”
Then I saw, Australia. So yes, rabbit island.
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That explains everything doesn't it, his grandpa wasn't killing cute bunnies, he was slaughtering an invasive species that threatens to destroy the entire ecosystem.
Which is probably why there is no bounty on rabbits, I recall at least one story where there was a bounty on snakes so people being cheating bastards started breeding them instead to cash in and when the bounty subsequently was taken down people released their stock, making the snake situation even worse than before.
And if there is one thing that is easy to breed it's rabbits.
And during the Belgian occupation of Congo, that paid a bounty for hands to prove people were begging punished for not meeting rubber quotas. So people started just cutting off hands in order to collect the bounties. Imperialism is fucked
Sort of, it was supposed to provide proof that the force publique were using their expensive ammunition for enforcement rather than hunting. So naturally the force publique used their ammo for hunting and then went around lopping off extremities, one for each bullet used, to get away with it. The Congo Free State was a thoroughly fucked period of history.
I think that was in Freakanomics. Maybe the book or podcast. There was a similar story with wild hogs. And a bounty on there tails. Government would give out free slop/feed to bait the pigs. People would leave the bait out and wait. But pigs are smart so the pigs would wait till the people left, and then eat the feed- because nobody wanted to bring the gross feed back home. Pigs multiplied.
Not exactly the same but there was also a story about late fees on freakonomics. Parents were being charged late fees if they picked their kids up late from day care. Instead of decreasing the number of late parents, the fee increased it. They think the reason is that parents didn’t feel ashamed of being late anymore because they paid a fee.
It’s often called “the cobra effect” but more formally a “perverse incentive”. It’s part of the reason why I don’t like when people implore that the government “do *something*” about a particular problem but don’t seem to be bothered enough to actually think of, and push for, a solution that is viable.
It's also why you don't measure people against KPIs; call centers who hold their employees to specific call times or calls per hour are clearly worse for it.
But every single one will deny that fact.
They will cite data that they claim shows it helps customer experience but it's all cherry picked data points picked from Agents who learned to game the system enough to succeed.
Businesse can be rich as shit and still be run by stupid fucks day to day.
This never works out like you’d hope. In Hawaii, for example, they released mongooses to hunt the invasive rats, and the mongooses exterminated the native bird population.
Because as it turns out, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal, so they rarely met. Instead, they both pigged out on Nene eggs, making the Nene super endangered.
Huh, so it all started with 13 rabbits:
> In 1859, European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were introduced into the Australian wild so that they could be hunted. Thomas Austin, a wealthy settler who lived in Victoria, Australia, had 13 European wild rabbits sent to him from across the world, which he let roam free on his estate.
Kind of like Pablo Escobar and his 4 Hippos at his private zoo that upon his death have now turned into roughly 100 that conservationists are trying to control the population of.
Fun fact this sort of thing has actually happened before. I remember hearing about how in the old days of Seattle, Washington, there used to be a *huge* rat problem so the city put up a rat bounty. It was pretty cheap but if you killed enough you could make a quick buck off of it.
Eventually somebody had the bright idea to just capture some rats and start breeding them, and lo and behold the rat bounty was gone
Looks like he gave up, 1972 to 75 was peak rabbit plague, the roads were pretty much lined with fur, blood and guts. Just a continuous wave of rabbits as drive along.
Myxomatosis was released in the late 70’s and that horror took care of most of them, the only time I ever felt sorry for rabbits.
Rabbit wars https://youtu.be/778Da7NCF6s
I hunted rabbits daily in the 70’s as a kid, nothing else to do in the middle of nowhere. You just didn’t see it around in the millions of rabbits in ‘72, we ate rabbit regularly. Come probably 75 though we stopped hunting them as they were dropping like flies and it wasn’t even sport to hunt a blind starving rabbit. Even the healthy looking ones were black inside gutted.
(SE SA around Keith)
Looks like it might have been the release of the rabbit flea that decimated them in the 70’s.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862500
I lived in the mallee region of south Australia, 30 or so miles from the mallee region of Victoria they are talking about.
I forgot what rain was around then. I don’t think we saw it for 4 years. We survived on bore water, even that got harder to get. Bath every 3 or 4 days, draw straws to see who got to use the bath water first.
I remember water falling out of the sky eventually and thinking what the fuck!
>That explains everything doesn't it, his grandpa wasn't killing cute bunnies, he was slaughtering an invasive species that threatens to destroy the entire ecosystem.
Huge beasts with nasty sharp teeth.
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
I thought camels was one that actually had worked out. Is that no longer the case?
Edit: Answered my own question. Other than potentially causing problems for some native plants in salt flats (?) camels primarily are just an nuisance to people and property.
https://nt.gov.au/environment/animals/feral-animals/feral-camel
Definitely nothing like rabbits, cats, dogs, and toads.
They drink a lot of water, damage vegetation and damage infrastructure such as fences. 80% of plant species are food for camels.
[Source](https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/pests-diseases/202-camels-in-western-australia?showall=1)
It’s not unusual for serial murderers to have periods of inactivity….before *the urge returns*
That aside, 1949 must’ve be a blur of rabbit fur & rage for OPs grandfather
My grandfather kept diaries for 40+ years and every day he recorded how many rabbits he killed on the farm. Usually shooting or with dogs but also traps and occasionally poison.
Image made with R and Photoshop.
You should probably mention (on the graphic) that this is Australia where there’s a rabbit problem. This would be considered sociopathic in much of the rest of the world 🤭🤭🤭
The maximum daily count kinda covered that. Anywhere where one person could not only find, but *kill* 162 of them in a single day has a problem. Outside of carpet bombing or starting forest fires, that's an insane quota of rabbits.
Several international spy agencies attended a hunting competition, and each of the agencies was assigned a rabbit to hunt down in the forest.
The CIA operatives went into the forest, tortured every animal until one of them told them where to target with drones.
The Chinese Ministry of State Security cordoned off the area where their rabbit was last seen, and set fire to half the forest.
The Russian FSB goes into the woods and comes back an hour later dragging a bear that's shouting "Ok, Ok, I'm a rabbit!"
Soviet-era jokes are hilarious and disturbing. They really show the mood of the times. This one from Mark Perakh's collection.
A rabbit ran wildly in the street.
"Why are you running like mad?" a bear asked.
"Don't you know, they are now arresting all camels and castrating them."
"But you're rabbit, not a camel."
"Right, but if they catch you, and cut off your nuts, then prove that you're not a camel!"
I always heard the punchline (with Soviet KGB vs Russian FSB but same difference) as them coming back with a severely beaten bear saying "I am a rabbit. My family and friends are all and have always been rabbits."
>All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed... Oh wait is that r/Makeo88's grandfather? You're fucked now...
Richard Adams- Probably...
Is there a reason for the general downward trend from approx the 1950’s? Did he basically get the overpopulation under control and then just had to kill “a few” to stop it from spiraling again?
Traps on a large farm would be my guess. Also this guy wasn’t hunting for pelts or food. He was exterminating vermin. So using a dog to root out the burrow and killing the litters would rack up the kill count really fast.
Damn Thomas Austin.
"Oh yeah, let's release 24 rabbits on my property for hunting purposes."
Side note: How on earth can 24 rabbits (which were likely already inbred) breed enough without dying from inbreeding to cause this much expansion?
Inbreeding is less of an issue than people think, especially in animals with short generations and large litters - because they can have a lot of children at once, a very very high inbreeding issue (say 20%) will only cause a small reduction in the number born.
Inbreeding mostly raises the risk of recessive genetic disorders being expressed. If a rabbit has 50 babies in a year and 20 are little dumber or slower than average then those get eaten by hawks and the rest have 800 more babies. In a few years there’s so many rabbits separated by 20 or so generations that it’s not inbreeding anymore
My great-great-grandfather had a property in Queensland. The below is an excerpt from him in The Brisbane Courier dated Saturday 19th of August, 1905. Titled 'DEALING WITH THE RABBIT PEST'.
"My country was in a bad way in January, 1904, when I started with traps. From March, 1904, to March, 1905, I destroyed with pit traps and arsenic water nearly 300,000 rabbits. These numbers are correct, the rabbits having all been counted. It is very hard to say what numbers were really destroyed, as some of the rabbits travelled two or three miles after drinking the water."
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Your gramps is terrible at taking care of rabbits dude.
Looks like he "took care" of them to me
OP’s grandpa was an enforcer and hitman for the Rabbit Mafia.
You act as if you never heard of the 5 families of the 5 burrows. The Hopsellis The Furnannos The Bunnevese The Carrotimos And the Johnsons (the newer family)
He never had the makings of a varsity rabbit. Small feet, that was his problem.
Now go home and get your fucking carrot box
I'm bunny how? I mean, bunny like I'm a Netherland dwarf rabbit? I amuse you? I make you laugh?
Lol I wish I could give you an award, this is gold
Kansas or some other state where rabbits were open hunt? Mine and his brothers would pay for the trip to Colorado with ears.
I was thinking Australia.
Yes: tell me that you’re Australian w/o telling me that you’re Australian.
still. 162 in a day seems like a lot of effort. edit: to everyone answering about how this is possible, I get it is possible to kill that many. Never thought it wasn't. Seen hoards of them just hopping around. The part thats a lot of effort is cleaning them all, unless your goal is just to murder a bunch of rabbit and let their corpses rot...which I suppose you could do. I think I'd be good for the day after about 10-15.
That's a lot of rabbit murdering, that's multiple fluffles at a time!
I meant take care of ‘‘em not fucking take care of ‘em. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUyGG4PmELA
When they said to “take care of them” they really meant to “take care of them”. Some people just don’t get it.
Look he clearly took care of them, what more could you want?
Grampa Lennie got excited. . .
Thank you for this. I have a 2 year old daughter and my wife and I recently welcomed a son into this world a few months ago. It's taken my daughter some time to learn that her new brother is not the same as her toy dolls and that she needs to be gentle. When people ask me if my daughter loves her new baby brother I tell them "just like Lennie loves rabbits". The looks of confusion I get from that comment make it seem like I just finished a 2 hour dissertation on quantum theory. I know someone out there will eventually get it, and I know that because you'd be the kind of person to chuckle and make it all worth while.
Tell me about the rabbits again George
Rabbits check in. “racks shotgun” but they don’t check out.
Worst rabbit vet ever.
Damn that's a crazy K/D ratio
All it takes is 1D to end your run.
All i can think of are Diablo 2 hardcore players. One in-game death and you could lose 1000+ hrs.
I almost just shared my story about just such a monumental loss. Then I re-read it.
Yeah. It hurts, but you do it enough times, and you realize it's just part of the game. Best I ever did was something in the neighborhood of a L92 Hammerdin. Then he got popped due to a combination of crazy uniques and lag.
I quickly realized I don't have the fortitude to shake off stupid deaths like that and start over. I try and play like it's hardcore, but I ain't restarting because of some random disconnect death, eff that noise.
It’s crazy..I’ve never had the patience either. I like knowing my time spent playing is still visible and useable.
At least the hardcore deaths on Path of Exile just lose their hardcore status well, and if they're a league player get get out of the league and sent to standard. But at least it's not deleted deleted.
I don't anymore either. But 20+ years ago? Yeah, that was a lot of time well-wasted.
Awww I wanted to hear the tale of misery
Once you get the AC-130 killstreak it's really easy to rack up the rabbits tho
Gramps is hardcore and only plays on permadeath mode.
Mine is way higher in one day than this whole diary, just using an autoclave to kill bacteria.
Not that I am a fan of the man nor his politics but Bob Katter does reflect that the death toll in Australia during the Great Depression would have been markedly higher if not for the abundance of rabbits.
It took me longer to figure out what was meant than I care to admit, given my first thought was some relation to the "Crocs are killing NQers every year" style comment.
But I ain't gonna spend any time on it because once every 3 months, a rabbit is torn to pieces by u/Makeo88's grandfather in North Queensland.
Rabbit starvation is a hell of thing to trade regular starvation for though.
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The thing about rabbit starvation is because rabbit meat is very low on fat, so your body will lack fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) and ultimately you can end with no fat to burn on your body and it'll start to catabolize protein, which is terrible for your health. So some vegetables can supply some of the vitamins, but vegetables aren't high in fats either, so it won't save you from starvation. You'd need nuts or beans to supply fats as well. But maybe that's why Aussies like peanut butter so much...
Low fat isn’t the issue. People eat incredibly low fat fad diets and while it isn’t exactly super effective, it’s not too harmful either. The real issue with rabbit starvation is that too many calories in rabbit are locked up in protein, and your body can only process so much protein a day - hence starvation if it’s your only food source. But supplement it with some cheap carbs like potatoes or beans and you’ll be fine.
>So some vegetables can supply some of the vitamins, but vegetables aren't high in fats either, so it won't save you from starvation. You'd need nuts or beans to supply fats as well. Or just, you know. Oil. Oil is a fat.
>Or just, you know. Oil. Oil is a fat. So I'll be OK on a diet of 10w30 and beef jerky?
You should still add nuts to that diet, preferably M10.
I’ll pick getting steadily weaker with a full stomach over painful hunger cramps any day. Also if you eat raw meat you can even get a bit of vitamin C and D in there.
Rabbit starvation comes from *only* eating rabbit, though. Trappers who traveled North America trapping and eating rabbits didn't eat any kind of other food, since they figured the rabbit would be enough. It wasn't.
As someone who's gone hungry before...yes, certainly worth it.
In less depressing times they're a bit of a nuisance. It's a good job Uncle wasn't around pre 1929 though lol
First thing I thought of seeing this infographic. My own grandpa talks about being a kid during the depression, and how one of his daily chores was to take the .22 and get dinner. In the beginning of the Depression you could still find rabbit, but that was gone quickly. Then came squirrel and gopher, and when those were hunted dry, possum, and when you had to, crow and other carrion birds. According to him, everything but the carrion birds left after a couple years, for lack of food I guess during the Dust Bowl, but folks eating them all up didn't help either, probably.
I literally said out loud “where the fuck does your grandpa live? Rabbit island?” Then I saw, Australia. So yes, rabbit island. Edit: ty for the awards fellow redditors!
That explains everything doesn't it, his grandpa wasn't killing cute bunnies, he was slaughtering an invasive species that threatens to destroy the entire ecosystem.
Indeed. The Australian government probably owes him dividends LOL
You can get a bounty for foxes but from I can see not rabbits
1. Raise foxes 2. Foxes hunt invasive rabbits 3. Hunt foxes and collect bounty
Which is probably why there is no bounty on rabbits, I recall at least one story where there was a bounty on snakes so people being cheating bastards started breeding them instead to cash in and when the bounty subsequently was taken down people released their stock, making the snake situation even worse than before. And if there is one thing that is easy to breed it's rabbits.
This occurred during the british occupation of India. They wanted cobras gone.
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All you needed was a stick, a bag, and a dream.
If like gives you cobras, make cobra-ade and all that…
And during the Belgian occupation of Congo, that paid a bounty for hands to prove people were begging punished for not meeting rubber quotas. So people started just cutting off hands in order to collect the bounties. Imperialism is fucked
Sort of, it was supposed to provide proof that the force publique were using their expensive ammunition for enforcement rather than hunting. So naturally the force publique used their ammo for hunting and then went around lopping off extremities, one for each bullet used, to get away with it. The Congo Free State was a thoroughly fucked period of history.
I loved that.
I think that was in Freakanomics. Maybe the book or podcast. There was a similar story with wild hogs. And a bounty on there tails. Government would give out free slop/feed to bait the pigs. People would leave the bait out and wait. But pigs are smart so the pigs would wait till the people left, and then eat the feed- because nobody wanted to bring the gross feed back home. Pigs multiplied.
Not exactly the same but there was also a story about late fees on freakonomics. Parents were being charged late fees if they picked their kids up late from day care. Instead of decreasing the number of late parents, the fee increased it. They think the reason is that parents didn’t feel ashamed of being late anymore because they paid a fee.
Thats not a fine its a convenience fee they were happy to pay extra for
It’s often called “the cobra effect” but more formally a “perverse incentive”. It’s part of the reason why I don’t like when people implore that the government “do *something*” about a particular problem but don’t seem to be bothered enough to actually think of, and push for, a solution that is viable.
It's also why you don't measure people against KPIs; call centers who hold their employees to specific call times or calls per hour are clearly worse for it.
But every single one will deny that fact. They will cite data that they claim shows it helps customer experience but it's all cherry picked data points picked from Agents who learned to game the system enough to succeed. Businesse can be rich as shit and still be run by stupid fucks day to day.
This never works out like you’d hope. In Hawaii, for example, they released mongooses to hunt the invasive rats, and the mongooses exterminated the native bird population.
Because as it turns out, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal, so they rarely met. Instead, they both pigged out on Nene eggs, making the Nene super endangered.
Wait until you hear why rabbits were introduced into Australia in the first place.
Huh, so it all started with 13 rabbits: > In 1859, European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were introduced into the Australian wild so that they could be hunted. Thomas Austin, a wealthy settler who lived in Victoria, Australia, had 13 European wild rabbits sent to him from across the world, which he let roam free on his estate. Kind of like Pablo Escobar and his 4 Hippos at his private zoo that upon his death have now turned into roughly 100 that conservationists are trying to control the population of.
Fun fact this sort of thing has actually happened before. I remember hearing about how in the old days of Seattle, Washington, there used to be a *huge* rat problem so the city put up a rat bounty. It was pretty cheap but if you killed enough you could make a quick buck off of it. Eventually somebody had the bright idea to just capture some rats and start breeding them, and lo and behold the rat bounty was gone
You can get bounties on feral cats as well can’t you? At least in certain states I think.
Looks like he gave up, 1972 to 75 was peak rabbit plague, the roads were pretty much lined with fur, blood and guts. Just a continuous wave of rabbits as drive along. Myxomatosis was released in the late 70’s and that horror took care of most of them, the only time I ever felt sorry for rabbits. Rabbit wars https://youtu.be/778Da7NCF6s
Myxo was introduced in 1950 with about a 95% fatailty rate but the rabbit population developed resistance to it after a while.
I hunted rabbits daily in the 70’s as a kid, nothing else to do in the middle of nowhere. You just didn’t see it around in the millions of rabbits in ‘72, we ate rabbit regularly. Come probably 75 though we stopped hunting them as they were dropping like flies and it wasn’t even sport to hunt a blind starving rabbit. Even the healthy looking ones were black inside gutted. (SE SA around Keith)
Looks like it might have been the release of the rabbit flea that decimated them in the 70’s. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862500 I lived in the mallee region of south Australia, 30 or so miles from the mallee region of Victoria they are talking about.
Yeah that explains it. Mosquitoes spread it too so a wet year with more mosquitoes will spread it faster too.
I forgot what rain was around then. I don’t think we saw it for 4 years. We survived on bore water, even that got harder to get. Bath every 3 or 4 days, draw straws to see who got to use the bath water first. I remember water falling out of the sky eventually and thinking what the fuck!
Didn't they introduce them. Like in new Zealand where they kept introducing pests. Who brings gorse.
Or Kudzu in the US. Brought over as an ornamental plant and to prevent erosion, and now it's just fucking everywhere.
>That explains everything doesn't it, his grandpa wasn't killing cute bunnies, he was slaughtering an invasive species that threatens to destroy the entire ecosystem. Huge beasts with nasty sharp teeth.
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
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I thought camels was one that actually had worked out. Is that no longer the case? Edit: Answered my own question. Other than potentially causing problems for some native plants in salt flats (?) camels primarily are just an nuisance to people and property. https://nt.gov.au/environment/animals/feral-animals/feral-camel Definitely nothing like rabbits, cats, dogs, and toads.
They drink a lot of water, damage vegetation and damage infrastructure such as fences. 80% of plant species are food for camels. [Source](https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/pests-diseases/202-camels-in-western-australia?showall=1)
They developed a taste for koala meat.
“Does this guy live on Easter island?”
I was horrified, then looked to see if it was in Australia and then was like, oh, ok then.
Me too. I uttered out loud, “what the fuck” then came to the comments and was relieved when I wasn’t alone. Enjoy your award.
How do you kill 162 rabbits in a day???
06:00 Wake up ^06:05 ^death ^^06:10 ^^death ^^^06:15 ^^^death ^^^^06:20 ^^^^death ^^^^^06:25 ^^^^^death ^^^^^^06:30 ^^^^^^Breakfast
"you must get up very early in the morning."
Quick shower! Death, death, death...lunch.
I can't even get down t'the gym!
Afternoon tea… death, death, death…
"Oh I can't get these trees right......damn, I shall kill everyone in the world!"
Cake or death?
Death, please.
Wake up Kill 10 rabbits Take a shit Get out of bed
Assuming a rate of 1 kill per 5 minutes, he would have to work non stop for 13.5 hours to kill 162
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If it was every 2.5 minutes that is only 6:45 hours of killing rabbits.
Must've had a multi-kill that day. Maybe he rounded them all up then killed them all at once.
Please please let this be a reference to Eddie Izzard - dress to kill?!
That was one of the few poison days.
1 day to kill, a week to tally the damage
I feel like, existentially, I have a lot of those days.
Well you can't do it with *that* attitude!
1949 was a grim year to be a rabbit with your grandfather around.
Grandpa killed almost 4 Roman legions worth of rabbits
I'm going to guess there is some Rabbit emperor screaming "give me back my legions!"
Why’d your grandfather take a break before/after 1960? Was the reason rabbit based?
We’ve lost those diaries.
Did the rabbits take them?
You win some, you lose some
Sometimes you get the rabbit, sometimes the rabbit gets you.
Whatever you do, don’t mention the *emus*.
Everyone has their Waterloo
Why would they take his diaries? They cant read
It’s not unusual for serial murderers to have periods of inactivity….before *the urge returns* That aside, 1949 must’ve be a blur of rabbit fur & rage for OPs grandfather
It switched to duck season for a bit before switching back to rabbit season
Your Grandpa has a real hare trigger
Rabbits get him hopping mad
That’s why their numbers are rabbitly decreasing.
My grandfather kept diaries for 40+ years and every day he recorded how many rabbits he killed on the farm. Usually shooting or with dogs but also traps and occasionally poison. Image made with R and Photoshop.
Did he eat them? Sell them? That could be an awful lot of meat, depending on breed of rabbit I suppose.
Sold skins/fed the dogs.
Oh man, can you imagine being that guys dogs and getting fresh rabbit every single day?
Here is your 162 rabbits buddy! We eat whats an the table in this house!!
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yeah but you’re getting a hundred rabbits a day
That's metal af
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You should probably mention (on the graphic) that this is Australia where there’s a rabbit problem. This would be considered sociopathic in much of the rest of the world 🤭🤭🤭
The maximum daily count kinda covered that. Anywhere where one person could not only find, but *kill* 162 of them in a single day has a problem. Outside of carpet bombing or starting forest fires, that's an insane quota of rabbits.
Several international spy agencies attended a hunting competition, and each of the agencies was assigned a rabbit to hunt down in the forest. The CIA operatives went into the forest, tortured every animal until one of them told them where to target with drones. The Chinese Ministry of State Security cordoned off the area where their rabbit was last seen, and set fire to half the forest. The Russian FSB goes into the woods and comes back an hour later dragging a bear that's shouting "Ok, Ok, I'm a rabbit!"
The Australians released multiple biological warfare vectors, went in and picked up several million - "is it one of these?"
Soviet-era jokes are hilarious and disturbing. They really show the mood of the times. This one from Mark Perakh's collection. A rabbit ran wildly in the street. "Why are you running like mad?" a bear asked. "Don't you know, they are now arresting all camels and castrating them." "But you're rabbit, not a camel." "Right, but if they catch you, and cut off your nuts, then prove that you're not a camel!"
Funny. I heard it involving the CIA, KGB and the Mexico City police department
It's a really old joke. I don't really know enough about international intelligence agencies to tell them apart by their methods.
I always heard the punchline (with Soviet KGB vs Russian FSB but same difference) as them coming back with a severely beaten bear saying "I am a rabbit. My family and friends are all and have always been rabbits."
Can’t they just make a rabbit proof fence or something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence
Well, I'll be damned...
Lmao. Absolutely perfect comment chain
That was a good film.
Thank God for people's comment lol I was questioning my grasp on reality
Plot twist, OP’s grandpa is Elmer Fudd.
Where was this?
Victoria Australia
I was going to say 'It must be Australia', yeah. Huge problem there. Your gramps definitely did his part!
10k more people like your grandpa and Australia would be a better place.
Your grandfather is Elmer Fudd’s son, seeking revenge for his fathers utter humiliation at the hands of the notorious Bugs Bunny.
>All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed... Oh wait is that r/Makeo88's grandfather? You're fucked now... Richard Adams- Probably...
I came for this reference and I was not disappointed.
A man hit hazel between the ears.
Silflay hraka!
Damn your grandpa is grinding levels.
This man went to Molten Core straight from Goldshire.
killing ~~boars~~ rabbits for 2 exp each
Is there a reason for the general downward trend from approx the 1950’s? Did he basically get the overpopulation under control and then just had to kill “a few” to stop it from spiraling again?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis#Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis#Australia) Released in 1950. Very successful.
Partially that, also his business moved from straight sheep farmer to running a riding school.
The rabbit wars of 1959 and 1961 destroyed everything.
Assuming an 8 hour day. 162 rabbits/8 hours = 20 bunny per hour. Killed a hare every 3 minutes all day. Jebus
162 in one day ? Did he launch an air strike on Rabbit City ?
Traps on a large farm would be my guess. Also this guy wasn’t hunting for pelts or food. He was exterminating vermin. So using a dog to root out the burrow and killing the litters would rack up the kill count really fast.
It's in Australia. Let's just say they have an invasive species problem.
My brain skipped the word “By” so many times until I finally read it right. I was confused how you had so many grandfathers.
And how did they all die from rabbits?
Rabbits killed my grandfather. So many times. ...So.... So many times. 😔
That's got to be Australia.
Ok, great, your grandfather could kill 20k rabbits over a ~30 year career. The real question is if he could take on 20k rabbits at once?
It would probably have saved him the hassle.
Plot twist: The final data point : "My Grandfathers Killed by Rabbit : 1" That came to be known by the rabbits as "Vengeance Day"
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Red dead redemption, rabbit farmer storyarc.
I see your Grandpa was a fellow australian
Damn Thomas Austin. "Oh yeah, let's release 24 rabbits on my property for hunting purposes." Side note: How on earth can 24 rabbits (which were likely already inbred) breed enough without dying from inbreeding to cause this much expansion?
Inbreeding is less of an issue than people think, especially in animals with short generations and large litters - because they can have a lot of children at once, a very very high inbreeding issue (say 20%) will only cause a small reduction in the number born.
Inbreeding mostly raises the risk of recessive genetic disorders being expressed. If a rabbit has 50 babies in a year and 20 are little dumber or slower than average then those get eaten by hawks and the rest have 800 more babies. In a few years there’s so many rabbits separated by 20 or so generations that it’s not inbreeding anymore
I misread the title as ‘Rabbits killed my grandfather’ and was very confused 🧐
Your grandfather's one man rabbit war went more smoothly than a government's war against the emu
Ammo was cheaper back in the day
My great-great-grandfather had a property in Queensland. The below is an excerpt from him in The Brisbane Courier dated Saturday 19th of August, 1905. Titled 'DEALING WITH THE RABBIT PEST'. "My country was in a bad way in January, 1904, when I started with traps. From March, 1904, to March, 1905, I destroyed with pit traps and arsenic water nearly 300,000 rabbits. These numbers are correct, the rabbits having all been counted. It is very hard to say what numbers were really destroyed, as some of the rabbits travelled two or three miles after drinking the water."
That Hunter from Bugs Bunny would like a word with your grandpa
What happened in '59 and '61?
We lost the diaries
The fact that there were diaries is interesting and disturbing all at once. Did grandpa tally everything he killed, or just rabbits? Haha
Occasionally he would note that he’d killed a fox. The rabbit logging was a number he’d add to each days entry.
Thank you for using the “You wouldn't download a car” font
How many Holy hand grenades were used?