Exploiters rabbit Britain

Question 1

14th century

Answer 1

First expansion after Black Death, kept in warrens

Question 2

15th century

Answer 2

Fall due to over supply

Question 3

16th /17th century

Answer 3

Increase as more officials and lawyers wanting to make use of the barren land and make money

Question 4

18th century

Answer 4

Fall as wheat and barley are more profitable

Question 5

19th century

Answer 5

Increase for game animals

Question 6

18th /19th century

Answer 6

Nuisance due to escaped rabbits and development of winter crops meaning they could exist year round, there was availability of burrows, the climate got warmer and game keepers exterminated their predators

Question 7

1840

Answer 7

They become an agricultural problem as legal trapping increased and bucks were caught and does left to ensure steady population to make money. Their predators were being killed

Question 8

1950

Answer 8

Pest act, organised culling

Question 9

1953

Answer 9

Myxomatosis reached Britain and vectored by rabbit flea

Question 10

1992

Answer 10

RHD reached Britain

Question 11

11th century

Answer 11

Introduced by Normans in Britain for meat