Released by Stylus Video in 1988.

Narrated by Ian Carmichael

Today rabbits are one of Britain's best known and best loved mammals. Just three hundred years ago they weren't common at all, in fact they weren't even wild animals.

Rabbits were originally introduced by the Normans as domestic animals, and culled from carefully maintained warrens for food. Gradually they escaped, and after the Agricultural Revolution their population boomed.

Survival's Liz and Tony Bomford looked into the rabbit question. They filmed a year of the life at Wimpole Warren in Cambridgeshire. It's the story of an aggressive male, subtly dominated by his wife - who makes all the major decisions - and of the life in their burrow, ingeniously filmed from underground. It's also a story of predation by Renyard the fox the scheming stoat, and of the starvation that a bitter winter brings. The rabbits' success lies in their ability to recover their numbers quickly.

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