One is the southern hairy-nosed wombat, a slow-moving nocturnal digger that loves its underground burrows. The other is the European rabbit, a small and speedy invader that has spread across the ...

The epigraph of Melanie Cheng’s novel “The Burrow” comes from an unfinished Franz Kafka short story with the same title: ... comes into play when Jin picks up a 9-week-old mini lop rabbit.

Rabbit warrens are trickier to find. They are smaller, lack trails, and can blend in with bare patches of dirt. How well did we do? By comparing satellite images with surveys conducted on the ground, ...