Wild New Zealand rabbits surf on sheep to escape floodwaters
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard a flock of sheep and surfing to safety on their woolly backs. Sixty-four-year-old Ferg Horne says he's been farming since he left school at age 15 and has never seen anything quite like it. He was trudging through pelting rain to rescue a neighbor's sheep from the floodwaters on Saturday at their South Island farm near Dunedin when he spotted the bedraggled rabbits hitching...
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