In 1865, settlers left rabbits on Enderby Island as food for castaways; 127 years later, the isolated population had developed into a distinct rabbit variety

Rabbits were deliberately released on New Zealand’s remote Enderby Island in October 1865 to provide a potential food source for people who might be shipwrecked in the subantarctic Auckland Islands. The animals were brought from Australia and released in the hope that a breeding population would establish itself.

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