1.   Cooking wild rabbits kills these bacteria.

2.   They have no specific food requirement and wild rabbits have no significant water intake.

3.   A French physician decided to get rid of the wild rabbits on his own estate and introduced myxomatosis.

4.   The park has a small number of wild rabbits, but Mr Weston said these were certainly not from that population.

5.   At the time Rex was especially fond of a wild rabbit he had tamed.

6.   The wild rabbits all stared at him, a bit surprised.

7.   Adore the wild rabbits that nibble my flowers.

8.   Wild rabbits have a flavorful white meat, with their increasingly farm-raised kin showing off the same qualities with even more meat in relation to bone.

9.   Police and agriculture officials are questioning locals as they search for those suspected of illegally importing the virus and spreading it to the wild rabbits.

10.   A rabbit-killing virus has been illegally introduced into South Island farmlands infested with wild rabbits, apparently by farmers desperate to save their grazing lands.