The 1988 arrival of viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD) in Spain devastated that country’s European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) population and, in the process, possibly doomed the local species most adapted to hunt rabbit, the Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ). [More]
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Deadly Rabbit Disease May Have Doomed Iberian Lynx
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