Australia's War Against Rabbits: The Story of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Australia's War Against Rabbits: The Story of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease
By (Author) Brian Douglas Cooke
CSIRO Publishing
CSIRO Publishing
1st June 2014
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
333.959320994
Physical Properties
Paperback
232
Width 170mm, Height 245mm
566g
Description
The management of wild rabbits is a vexing problem worldwide.The introduction of two viral diseases, myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease, as biological control agents in Australia has been met favourably yet their spread in southern Europe threatens natural rabbit populations. Despite this, scientists with very different goals still work together with a common interest in understanding rabbit biology and epidemiology.Australia's War Against Rabbits uses rabbit haemorrhagic disease as an important case study in understanding how animal populations adapt to diseases, in this case an RNA virus.
Author Bio
Brian Douglas Cooke has worked on the management of wild rabbits for over 40 years. Initially in South Australia and subsequently in Canberra, he has worked with rabbits in Australias arid zone, Europe and the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands, specialising most recently on newly emergent rabbit haemorrhagic disease.
