The rabbit’s tale will run and run

During all my years as a keeper, the resilience of certain species never ceased to amaze me. I suppose it’s life that some creatures have endured in spite of everything, while other things seem impossible to hang on to. It was always thought that the Normans were the first to introduce rabbits to our isles. They certainly farmed them and escapees were the most likely origin of our wild population. Recent findings, however, show that the Romans also kept rabbits in Britain as far back as AD1.

If we care to look back even further, the remains of both