Released by Stylus Video in 1988.<br /><br />Narrated by Ian Carmichael<br /><br />Today rabbits are one of Britain's best known and best loved mammals. Just three hundred years ago they weren't common at all, in fact they weren't even wild animals.<br /><br />Rabbits were originally introduced by the Normans as domestic animals, and culled from carefully maintained warrens for food. Gradually they escaped, and after the Agricultural Revolution their population boomed.<br /><br />Survival's Liz and Tony Bomford looked into the rabbit question. They filmed a year of the life at Wimpole Warren in Cambridgeshire. It's the story of an aggressive male, subtly dominated by his wife - who makes all the major decisions - and of the life in their burrow, ingeniously filmed from underground. It's also a story of predation by Renyard the fox the scheming stoat, and of the starvation that a bitter winter brings. The rabbits' success lies in their ability to recover their numbers quickly.<br /><br />All Rights belong to respective owners.
