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Deadly dancing
Rabbits are a stoat's favourite prey. Stoats are living bundles of energy and live life at breakneck speed. They can tackle prey 10 times their own size - if they can catch it. To help catch rabbits, they do something quite strange: a manic dance that seems to be for the rabbit's benefit. The darting and leaping across the rabbit's field of vision appears to cast a spell in a deadly kind of enchantment for the rabbit.
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