Australia: Killer rabbits attack snakes (table has been turned)

Cairns Post (Australia) ^ | 09/15/09 | Sean Muir,

[TigerLikesRooster]

Killer rabbits attack snakes

Sean Muir, Tablelander

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

© The Cairns Post

 

A PAIR of rabid rabbits has been caught killing a series of snakes near Cairns.

For three weeks Armando Del Manso believed his dog was responsible for the dead snakes showing up with teeth marks all over them on his East Barron property’s lawn each morning.

But it turns out it was a pair of rampaging rabbits killing the snakes.

Pictures: Cairns snakes

The 42-year-old boilermaker first made the discovery Tuesday night when he spotted the two wild rabbits attacking a king brown snake.

“The snake was raised up in the air in the striking position and the two rabbits worked their way around him and killed him in two minutes,” Mr Del Manso said.

“I’m gobsmacked, it’s absolutely incredible.

“We were watching from the veranda with a spotlight, and I thought, who is going to believe this, they’ll think I’m crazy.”

Rabbit attacks snake on video

Killer instinct: East Barron resident Armando Del Manso says wild rabbits are responsible for the deaths of a series of snakes at his home.

 

Bitten to death: One of the snakes that Armando Del Manso saw being attacked by rabbits.

 

Victims: A king brown and brown tree snake that were killed by rabbits.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Clearly, there are Rambo rabbits out there. In S. Korea, there was a report on a rabbit living in a Buddhist temple, where many stray cats happen to roam. During the day, it is a cuddly nice rabbit, friendly to visitors and monks. At night, it turns into a Rambo, attacking anything approaching it, including friendly monks. It spends night right in the center of a courtyard. Flat ground within 30 feet radius. That way, cats cannot sneak in and ambush it, I suppose.

[Red in Blue PA]

My guess is that we will hear this is tied to global warming somehow.

[Clintonfatigued]

Is this the killer rabbit that Jimmy Carter saw?

[darkwing104]

Oh no...I wonder if he is the descendant of the killer bunny from the Holy Grail...

Kind of cool though...

[AnAmericanMother]

First in with inevitable Monty Python pic:

[AnAmericanMother]

Although you beat me with the reference . . . .!

[G Larry]

“Night of the Lepus”

[redangus]

The most vile rodent(s) you’ve ever seen.

[ZinGirl]

i'm sure we're competing for references!

[steve86]

I am feeling ambivalent about this development.

[llevrok]

Killer rabbits?

Curious that this should come up the same day as Jimmuh Cartah makes a fool of himself. Conspiracy, me things.

[AZ .44 MAG]

Lepus maraudus ping.

Beware the bunny!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Too bad the bunny didn’t eat America’s hemmorhoid.

[shibumi]

Followed closely by the fearsome Texas Jackalope.....

[AZ .44 MAG]

Lepus Gigantus is coming for you.

We are your Overbunnies.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Literally rabid? Or just plain hopping mad?

[AnAmericanMother]

The other killer wabbit.

I am embarassed that I am from the same state as this anti-semitic old dement.

[Westlander]

You mean a couple of killer rabbits escaped from the Wrath of Jimmuh?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Right. In large numbers, they could attack anything. Times are certainly changing when rabbits go ‘rabid.’ :-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

I suspect the latter.

[AnAmericanMother]

Nice!

Those don't get as far east as Georgia, though, or Jimmuh would have had a heart attack.

[Oztrich Boy]

Senior wildlife manager at the Cairns Wildlife Safari Paul O’Callaghan said he’d never heard of rabbits attacking snakes before but that didn’t mean it wasn’t possible.
“Animals are capable of learning, and it’s not impossible that these animals have learnt to deal with snakes in this way,” Mr O’Callaghan said. “They’re certainly taking a risk doing it though.”

'My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.'

[Westlander]

[Oztrich Boy]

Literally rabid? Or just plain hopping mad?

No rabies in Australia. Just BunnyBadassitude.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Got into a kick fight with some kangaroos when they were kittens?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Instead of Pitbulls, the ‘hood punks could be using Peter Cottontails.

[Westlander]

[sig226]

That’s no ordinary rabbit!

[Secret Agent Man]

I am an underdog guy, I am glad these rabbits aren’t taking crap from the snakes. It IS Texas after all. Rabbits probably are just saying “We’re not going to be prey for you, we’re TEXAS rabbits.”

[Secret Agent Man]

Those are actually a type of rabbit HPV wart that are picked up in the wild. They are treatable and they will eventually shrink and go away.

[Unassuaged]

‘My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.’

BRAVO! BIGWIG!

[AZ .44 MAG]

I don’t want that to be our Overbunny!

It Bugs me.

[vetvetdoug]

A few years ago I had a fellow Texan send me a video of a Texas Jackrabbit attacking a rattlesnake. The rabbit drove the snake into a tree and then left. In 1964 at Laughlin AFB, Tx, a Texas Jackrabbit attacked a military dog at the South Gate...it sent the dog packing.

[AZ .44 MAG]

Those are actually a type of rabbit HPV wart that are picked up in the wild. They are treatable and they will eventually shrink and go away.

Maybe we should require HPVvaccination for all prepubescent bunnies.

Good enough for humans.

HPV = Hare papilloma (sp?)virus not human PV?

I don't even want to know how rabbits get the human form.

[Eye of Unk]

Send them to Florida.

Next new sci-fi flick, Killer Rabbits Vs. Mutant Pythons

[Secret Agent Man]

Those were rabbits with some kahones. Normally they will not do such things unless they are cornered and really have no other choice but to fight.

I like the rabbit mentality. You tend to keep to yourself, always alert to what’s going on around you, trying to live and let live, and if trouble comes your way first try to get the hell out of there, and if that isn’t possible, you fight like hell and make sure the other guy won’t ever do that to you or another one again.

[Westlander]

[Westlander]

[Westlander]

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/images/fresh_kill.jpg

Sometimes bunnies lose. Even Czar Bunnies.

[AZ .44 MAG]

That’s Lepus Pretty Damn Biggus.

But not quite Lepus Gigantus. Give him a few more generations and check back in.

I watched Night of the Lepus in Jr. High and NOTHING I’ve seen here approaches the nightmares I suffered in the 70s. NOTHING!!!!

I need counseling only the public option can provide.

[Defiant]

Gooooo mammals!

[Zoe Brain]

Well... these are *Australian* Rabbits after all.

“Both the flora and fauna of the continent is extremely dangerous, as Death’s Library attests. A book series known as “Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita” extends at least into “Volume 29c Part Three”, while a list of the harmless ones contains only “Some of the sheep.” There are few poisonous snakes in XXXX, the explanation for this being that “most of them have been eaten by the spiders”.”

Or the Rabbits.

[tophat9000]

Yea Jimmy Carter open his big yap in the news and MSM run a story about how there really are killer rabbits?... typical ;>

[Salamander]

But does it have big, nasty pointy teeth?

[Fire_on_High]

I knew I couldn’t be the only person who thought of Watership Down from this.

[AussieJoe]

“Well... these are *Australian* Rabbits after all.”

I’m not surprised by this.... there’s not much around here that *doesn’t* kill other animals and/or humans.

[Dusty Road]

Only one problem with that video, it's about 4 years old It's made it's way around the net several time's. The first time I seen it they claimed it was in Barton Spring’s TX. It looks like your average Cotton Tail and your average Coach Whip, both native to TX.