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These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.

• samatman 4y ago
  It's not contradictory in the slightest, the odds of a domesticated and domestic rabbit surviving predation are effectively nil. The odds that it manages a litter first are higher, especially if it escapes pregnant, which rabbits generally are if they're able to be. Those pups are feral, not domestic, and have moderately better odds. Given enough generations, the domesticated neoteny is selected out by predation and now you have an invasive population of feral rabbits which can survive in the wild.
  • wikfwikf 4y ago
    Everyone dies eventually.
    • samatman 4y ago
      Yes, but not of predation. The number of rabbits which die of age or starvation in their burrows over the winter, or disease, is not zero.