Japanese island overrun by rabbits, tourists

Tue, 12/13/2011 - 04:55 — Anonymous Okunoshima, a small island floating in
the Inland Sea between Hiroshima and Shikoku, used to be a top-secret
military site manufacturing poison gas. Not exactly the kind of place you'd
think to spend an idyllic afternoon. Of course, that was before the rabbits
took over. In 1971, a group of schoolchildren released eight rabbits on the
island. The rabbits did what rabbits do best and now the 700-square-meter
island is home to more than 300 of their floppy-eared descendants, earning it
the nickname Usagi Shima, or Rabbit Island.read more