A dark night
"There're rabbits with ears cut off"
A dark shadow that goes for ears of rabbits
The next day
"Look at this rabbit!"
Guardian: This one's ear has also been cut off..
PD : It got cut?
As if bitten by someone
a part of the ear is torn off
"What's more strange is that if the ear got cut off during a fight, there should be traces"
"There should be something like a piece of the ear left behind but it isn't found"
So what seems to be happening is that..
Someone is purposefully
attacking only rabbits' ear
Wildlife Expert: This is a structure of clustered teeth.
Wildlife Expert: The trace is that of the ear having been bitten in one bite.
Wildlife: So ultimately, those wounds are made by another rabbit.
The culprit is a rabbit?!
Just then
A wild rabbit found outside the pen
Is this rabbit the culprit???
"2 years ago, one of the rabbits we were raising ran away."
"As far as I know, the rabbit stays nearby and comes down when there's no one around and wanders around."
To see if this rabbit really is the culprit
Installed a camera
and waited
And the rabbit appeared..
BUT
The rabbit only sits
for a long time...
When the rabbit is approached
the rabbit disappears to somewhere
In the meantime
The rabbits are urgently checked
Not one
but two rabbits' ears got attacked
"Ah...this is driving me nuts. Since it's not just one or two.."
"I really need to find a solution or something..."
And among these rabbits..
one rabbit is separated from the rest..
Unlike the other rabbits, this rabbit's ears are unscathed
"When I come by sometimes during the day, I can see Tori harassing the other rabbits."
Suspicions fall on Tori
who is known to bully other rabbits..
For now, Tori is isolated
from the pack..
And night falls once more
Someone
has started to hunt?!
Because it's night, the culprit isn't very visible..!
The next morning
A dead rabbit
and another rabbit who's eating the ear..
A clear trace of the culprit
This rabbit was actually the one responsible..!
"I'm shocked."
"I know that rabbits could fight but I never imagined that they could bite and eat each other's ears."
A big question is then
Why did Torang conduct such horrific acts?
Vet: It's abnormal behavior.
Vet: It could be a symptom of some disease, or could be a symptom of stress.
Vet: There could actually be many causes..
The reason why the rabbit had shown this strange behaviour
"When there were 8 of them in the beginning,"
"the rabbit got left out a lot by the others"
Unlike other rabbits who have straight ears
Torang had droopy ears
"Maybe as the other rabbits gave Torang stress for being different"
"Torang also had an illness (due to that stress)..."
Because of the reason that they looked different from each other
Torang was deeply hurt inside
Vet: Due to psychological stress, there're cases where this can lead to obsession over something
Vet: Like in humans, the tendency for paranoia or concentration can be seen due to stress. Behaviorally..
Vet: There's a big possibility of this being true for the rabbit as well.
Not only that
Even shows strange behavior of
eating another rabbit's fur..
Vet: The way to correct that kind of abnormal behavior that's like paranoia is
Vet: You would need to isolate the rabbit and stop the rabbit from repeating the behavior
Vet: (When a month or so passes) the rabbit will come to forget about the fact that the rabbit behaved that way.
Rather than total isolation
So that the the other rabbits are no longer attacked
even when together
An individual space is made
and the rabbit will be supervised..
"I hope that the rabbit's obsession gets alleviated soon in the isolated space"
"and join the other rabbits"
"and live peacefully."