On Apr 1, 11:42 am, "Paul Burridge"
wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've been getting a lot of stress from my girlfriend. The problem is
jackrabbits. There are a lot of them where we live and at this time of
year they box each other quite viciously.

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Aren't you talking about hares?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sub...printout.shtml

They may be called jackrabbits in the U.S. but I've never heard of
them being called anything but hares in the U.K.

According to this web-site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/192.shtml

the boxers are unreceptive females fighting off males, rather than
males competing for territory, so your girlfriend is going to want you
to able to direct your stun-gun at the male participant, which is
obviously going to be difficult if neither of you has yet realised
that you have been looking at male-female encounters.

A properly programmed image analysis system may be able to do better
than you can in determining the sex of the hares - it turned out to be
relatively easy to set up an image analysis system to sex day-old
chickens, a skill that humans can only acquire after a lot of practice
- but you then have to couple this to some kind of long-range non-
lethal projectile system, like a taser, with a better long range
accuracy than anything I've ever heard off.

It's not a job that I'd take on with any high expectation of eventual
success, and I've got a higher opinion of my own competence than I
have of yours, though this is not an opinion that you will share
(another one of your problems).

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen