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Science & technology THE TROUBLE WITH BUNNIES AS ANYONE brought up on Beatrix Potter knows, farmers and gardeners don't like rabbits. But just how much damage Peter's real-life
counterparts actually cause has not, until now, been measured. This is because it is difficult to say how many rabbits visit any piece of land over the course of a year. Never fear,
biologists at Britain's Ministry of Agriculture are on the case. A project run by Gordon McKillop at the ministry's Central Science Laboratory in York has been monitoring
rabbits' appetites in detail. His method can now tell you, if you own a farm, just how costly a guest an individual rabbit is.
