“When we first heard that a wild boar had preyed on a live rabbit, we were surprised,” one researcher said Shutterstock A new study reveals wild boars on Japan’s Rabbit Island are scavenging rabbit ...

Unregulated tourist feeding has pushed Japan’s famous "Rabbit Island" past its natural ecological limits, stripping local plant life bare and causing wild boars to hunt live rabbits. Get breaking news ...

Japan’s Okunoshima Island, in Hiroshima Prefecture, is famous for the thousands of free-roaming rabbits that draw tourists eager to feed them. However, a new study suggests all those handouts may be ...