*LECTURE 55B* *BRIEF HISTORY OF RABBITS* The original rabbits came from the southern European mainland. They been found millions of years ago in the Iberian peninsula. And they refer to this part of the world as Land of the Rabbits. As I said earlier the scientific name for rabbits is Oryctolagus cuniculus, which means 👂🏼a hare like digger of underground passages. However as the Romans arrived on the peninsula in the 2nd century, they now comes with the idea of farming rabbit.And they were ori