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Rabbits Rabbits eat 30% of their body weight each day, and are a serious pest to forestry, farming and horticulture. The loss to agriculture is estimated at £120 million each year. In the 1950s, myxomatosis virtually wiped out the rabbit population, but numbers are now at 30% of the pre-myxomatosis level, and rising. For new...