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    Easter in Australia is celebrated differently than other places due to rabbits being seen as a plague. Instead of a rabbit, Australians use a bilby, a small marsupial, as the mascot that brings chocolate eggs. This is because in 1860, 24 rabbits were brought to Australia from England to hunt, but they reproduced rapidly and became a plague that has still not been controlled. So Australians chose the bilby, a native and endangered animal, to replace the rabbit as their Easter mascot.

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    Easter in Australia is celebrated differently than other places due to rabbits being seen as a plague. Instead of a rabbit, Australians use a bilby, a small marsupial, as the mascot that brings chocolate eggs. This is because in 1860, 24 rabbits were brought to Australia from England to hunt, but they reproduced rapidly and became a plague that has still not been controlled. So Australians chose the bilby, a native and endangered animal, to replace the rabbit as their Easter mascot.

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    Easter Around The World

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    Easter in Australia is celebrated differently than other places due to rabbits being seen as a plague. Instead of a rabbit, Australians use a bilby, a small marsupial, as the mascot that brings chocolate eggs. This is because in 1860, 24 rabbits were brought to Australia from England to hunt, but they reproduced rapidly and became a plague that has still not been controlled. So Australians chose the bilby, a native and endangered animal, to replace the rabbit as their Easter mascot.

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    “Easter around the

    world”
    Easter In Australia…
    In Autralia, it is not the bunny that brings chocolate eggs. There is
    Bildy, a 30/60 cm marsupial at length and weighs up to 2.5Kg, with an
    excelente sense of smell and audition capacity.

    That happened because in the country the rabbits are seen as a


    plague.

    In 1860 a brithish brought from England 24 rabbits to the


    country, to be able to practice his favourite hobby: hunting
    rabbits.

    As rabbits are famous for their reproduction capacity, these


    24 rabbits in 10 years have turned into a plague that has not
    been controlled by Australia until today.

    So they decided to Exchange the mascot for na australian


    native animal and even runs extinction risk.

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