Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — Tree Climbing Rabbits. [ARTICLE]

Tree Climbing Rabbits.

It seems almost a stretch of the imagination to think of rabbits climbing trees. Yet in Australia many rabbits have somehow acquired the tree climbing habit, having been forced, on account of the persecutions of dogs and other animals, to drop burrowing and imitate squirrels. An Australian sent on to England recently the two front feet of a rabbit that bad been killed on an acacia, three yards from the ground, and he wrote in his letter that this was not at all a remarkable thing, and he had offien 'found them, or at least the traces of thoir claws, on the bark of trees four, five and six yards high. There is an underground river near Charlotte, N. C., 45 feet below the surface. It is 700 feet wide and about 6 feet a depth. It was discovered in 1898.