Photograph: Queensland police. Rescued giant rabbit finds a home, a buggy and a massive beanbag. Read more. Can exotic animals be kept as pets in Australia?
Exotic animals such as monkeys, lions and tigers can only be held by licensed persons and usually only for exhibition or conservation purposes — they cannot be sold for commercial purposes or kept as pets by private owners.
Queensland is the only state to keep an area free of rabbits by maintaining a rabbit-proof fence and controlling rabbit populations in the area. Allowing rabbits to be kept within this area may endanger the rabbit-free status. The government also makes the following recommendation: Kangaroos and wallabies do not make good pets and you should never keep one.
Private events, taking photos or filming the event and posting footage of the event on the internet, or any other similar activities are considered exhibiting the animal and these activities must be detailed in the management plan. Exhibiting an animal in this way does not count towards the minimum exhibit requirements unless it is for film and television production in the form of a story, narrative or documentary.
Licence holders must also keep records which detail information such as which exhibits are off the regular enclosure site or exhibit times on the regular enclosure site. Record keeping requirements such as these are recorded in the Exhibited Animals Regulation and must be complied with at all times.
The exhibition licence approving a rabbit for exhibit will list the permitted activities for the rabbit as outlined in the management plan. For example, you may submit a management plan detailing how you wish to exhibit a rabbit in a magic show off the regular enclosure site. The exhibition licence would record that the rabbit is approved to do certain activities for exhibition only off the regular enclosure site. If you want to exhibit a rabbit at a regular enclosure site for example, exhibit the rabbit at the address where the licence is issued to additional requirements need to be met.
All rabbits must be microchipped and desexed within 6 months of obtaining the rabbit if a juvenile, or on obtaining the rabbit as an adult, unless written advice has been obtained by a veterinarian that desexing would be detrimental to its welfare. If a licence holder is not permitted to exhibit a rabbit to the public at the regular enclosure site, but would like to record the animal's image using photos or filming to be viewed by the public, the risks associated with this activity must be addressed within the management plan.
Later releases of rabbits for sport hunting dramatically increased the size of the feral rabbit population. Rabbits eat pasture and crops, compete with native animals, cause soil erosion, and prevent regeneration of native vegetation.
Introducing, keeping and selling rabbits in Queensland is illegal and penalties apply. Limited numbers of permits for domestic rabbits are available from Biosecurity Queensland for research purposes, public display, magic acts, and circuses. Before a permit is granted, guidelines must be met. You can support a national rabbit mapping project by reporting rabbit populations. If you have a pet rabbit, you can surrender it to the RSPCA or the Animal Welfare League who are permitted to rehome illegally kept rabbits interstate.
See the rabbit fact sheet PDF, 2. Panama disease tropical race 4 confirmed in Far North Queensland. Check if you're registered as a biosecurity entity. Fall armyworm detected in Queensland. General enquiries 13 25 Restricted invasive animals. You must manage the impacts of rabbits on your land. You must not move, keep, feed, give away, sell or release rabbits into the environment.
Scientific name Oryctolagus cuniculus. Similar species Hare. Description Small, furry mammal with long ears, weight about 1. Fur is usually grey-brown with pale belly; black or ginger also common. Hind legs are long, front legs are short. Ears are long. Eyes are large. How to distinguish a rabbit from a hare Hares: are considerably larger than rabbits with a head and body length of 55cm 40cm for rabbits are more golden-brown in colour rabbits are greyer have relatively longer ears with distinct black tips have relatively larger hind legs and can run faster don't lift their tails when disturbed, so the black upper-surface is always visible rabbits cock tails and show white under-surface as a general alarm signal - often seen when rabbits are scuttling for shelter tend to lead solitary lives except when breeding rabbits live in groups.
Habitat Creates warrens where soil is easy to dig. Occupies tussock grasses and areas littered with fallen timber. Also lives in and under buildings, in old machinery and storage containers, and in old waste facilities.
Distribution Rabbits are spread throughout Queensland, with high populations in the Granite Belt and south-west; moderate populations in the Maranoa, southern Warrego and north Burnett, and on the Atherton Tablelands and south-west and north-west Darling Downs; and isolated populations in remainder of state.
Rabbit distribution correlates with soil types, especially types suitable for burrowing. Above the Tropic of Capricorn, rabbits are at the edge of their range and populations generally expand and contract according to season. Rabbit numbers dramatically decline following outbreaks of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus RHDV , but can increase in areas where effective follow-up measures e. Life cycle Female rabbits can have up to litters in a good breeding season, producing an average of kittens per litter.
Litters of up to 8 kittens are possible for older females, depending on food quantity and quality.
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