Editing Cuniculture (section)

===Expansion around the globe===
European explorers and sailors took rabbits with them to new ports around the world, and brought new varieties back to Europe and England with them. With the [[second voyage of Christopher Columbus]] in 1494, European domestic livestock were brought to the [[New World]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=Virginia DeJohn|title=Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America|url=https://archive.org/details/creaturesofempir00ande|url-access=registration|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-530446-6|page=97|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Rabbits, along with goats and other hardy livestock, were frequently released on islands to produce a food supply for later ships.<ref name=Whitman/>{{rp|151–152}} The importations occasionally met with disastrous results, such as in the [[Rabbits in Australia|devastation in Australia]]. While cattle and horses were used across the socio-economic spectrum, and especially were concentrated among the wealthy, rabbits were kept by lower-income classes and peasants. This is reflected in the names given to the breeds that eventually arose in the colonized areas. From the Santa Duromo mountains of Brazil{{citation needed|date=August 2020|reason=No mountains in Brazil with that name}} comes the Rustico, which is known in the United States as the [[Brazilian domestic rabbit|Brazilian rabbit]].<ref name=Whitman/>{{rp|115}} The Criollo rabbit comes from Mexico.<ref name=Whitman/>{{rp|139}}