Wild Rabbit Numbers Are Hopping Back in Arizona

After years of dramatic decline, wild rabbit numbers across Arizona are showing encouraging signs of recovery, according to naturalists and local residents. Beginning in 2018, desert cottontails and other lagomorphs (rabbits) began succumbing to a highly lethal outbreak of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2), which spread rapidly through domestic and wild populations in Arizona…

The post Wild Rabbit Numbers Are Hopping Back in Arizona appeared first on Steve Dale Pet World.