Black rabbits kept in Amami for the first time in over 30 years at a research facility (Kyodo News)

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Black rabbits kept in Amami for the first time in over 30 years at a research facility (Kyodo News)

"Yuwan," a male Amami rabbit designated as a special natural monument by the Japanese government, which had been kept at Hirakawa Zoo (Kagoshima City), was recently transferred to a research and breeding facility in Yamato Village on Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, where breeding has begun. This is the first time in over 30 years that an Amami rabbit has been kept in the village. Ijuin, the mayor of the kindergarten, said, "