大象传媒

Bill Oddie is watching rabbits. Every single rabbit is standing upright at the moment, which suggests that something is slightly bothering them. Is it up in the sky, is it a bird of prey? No, it鈥檚 a stoat. There is an animal you cannot really go out planning to see; it鈥檚 always luck. Bill doesn't think he's ever been taken to anywhere where you will see stoats for sure. This one鈥檚 wondrously bold. Great tail, look. Bill reckons they鈥檙e an animal made for cartoons, because just look at the way they move - they bounce along on all four feet together and then they suddenly stop, leap down a hole, bob up again, off somewhere else. You think they鈥檒l never find anything that way, because they鈥檙e moving so quickly they wouldn鈥檛 have time to look. But yes, this is a stoat on a hunt. Rabbits beware! Stoat warning! Stoat warning! Actually, the stoat will take baby rabbits but I wouldn鈥檛 mess with mum if I were you - the stoat is chased off by a rabbit, which makes you suddenly realise how tiny the stoat is.