Saturday, August 9, 2008

Rabbits on the Runways?

At a birthday dinner in honor of my cousin K last weekend, we were discussing my Aunt P's pet rabbit. It's quite taciturn and fuzzy. I mentioned that there was one time when (my) K and I were driving through SFO's Long Term Parking Lot, and I was scanning the aisles: no space - no space - no spaces - brown hare - no spac--what?! There was a big brown hare sitting there, chilling out. In Long Term Parking. Cousin A chimed in that she had seen them at Chicago (O'Hare?!), and someone else mentioned they'd seen them at yet another airport. What is it with bunnies and planes?

K hypothesized that rabbit/hare populations are usually kept in check by predators like raptors...who probably wouldn't do so great in the airport environs. Could there be a raptor shadow around airports that allows for bunny proliferation?

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