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The Private Life of the Rabbit

R. M. Lockley

  • 152 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1975
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1 About this book

As read on Wikipedia most of the modern research into wild rabbit behaviour was carried out in the 1960s by two research centres. One was the naturalist Ronald Lockley, who maintained a number of large enclosures for wild rabbit colonies, with observation facilities, in Orielton, Pembrokeshire.

Apart from publishing a number of scientific papers, he popularised his findings in a book The Private Life of the Rabbit, which is credited by Richard Adams as having played a key role in his gaining "a knowledge of rabbits and their ways" that informed his novel Watership Down.

  • Habitat
  • Rabbits
  • Behavior
  • Animal behavior

2 About R. M. Lockley

1903–2000

Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history, including a study of shearwaters, and the book The Private Life of the Rabbit, which was used in the development of his friend Richard Adams's children's book Watership Down.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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