{"product_id":"the-private-life-of-the-rabbit-an-account-of-the-life-history-and-social-behavior-of-the-wild-rabbit","title":"The Private Life of the Rabbit: An Account of the Life History and Social Behavior of the Wild Rabbit","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten with an evident love of animals and nature  The Private Life of the Rabbit presents a completely new picture of the wild rabbit and its way of life. Mt. Lockley  who observed rabbits in Wales over a 5 year period  shows that they have a complex community life little understood by the world in general. These vegetarian creatures posses both dignity and animality; psychological factors play as large a part in shaping their lives as they do in ours. One finds  too  that their reputation for promiscuity and wanton reproduction is really undeserved.  Lockley built an artificial warren with glass sides and several tracts of natural habitat-an open plain  a woodlot  a lushly vegetated savannah were enclosed and arranged for maximum ease of observation with minimum interference. This controlled rabbit colony was observed every day and night in every season and in all kinds of weather.  In Lockleys account  rabbits emerge with characteristics and personalities of their own. The nicknames he gives them (Weary Willie  Timid Timothy  Bold Benjamin  for example) in no way lessen the objective and scientific accuracy of his findings. In fact  this touch of individuality reinforces the observation that rabbits are creatures with interests  wills  and preferences of their own. Female conservatism  scent setting or chinning by dominant males  the ability of the female to absorb her fertilized embryo  the stress of subordinate status...and more  are revealed here.  CONTENTS: Intro by Richard Adams  the Mind of the Rabbit  The Coney Garth  The Nucleus  The Dynasty in Plain  The Kings of Wood  Over-populated World  Hard Times  The Idyll in Savanna  Life Underground  Reingestion  Population and Birth Control  Myxomatosis  The Rabbit Wild and Free\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952213880885,"sku":"ByrdShop_002573900X","price":227.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780025739000_069f2581-cc05-443d-8858-2549788d7e2f.jpg?v=1770154376","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-private-life-of-the-rabbit-an-account-of-the-life-history-and-social-behavior-of-the-wild-rabbit","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}