1 of 2 | A wildlife rescue in Scotland is caring for three baby rabbits that stowed away in an offshore container and wound up on the deck of an oil rig in the North Sea. Photo courtesy of Ithaca Energy
A wildlife rescue in Scotland is caring for three baby rabbits that stowed away in an offshore container and wound up on the deck of an oil rig in the North Sea.
Ithaca Energy said on social media that the baby bunnies apparently took shelter in the container in Dundee, Scotland, before it was transported by road to Aberdeen and loaded onto an FS Aquarius vessel bound for the Valaris Norway oil rig on the company’s Cygnus Platform, about 93 miles off the coast of Lincolnshire, England.
Two of the rabbits were found running loose on the rig’s pipe deck and were rounded up by members of the crew, who placed them in a box in the radio room with some water and fresh vegetables.
The bunnies were transported back to Scotland, where they turned over to the New Arc Wildlife Rescue for care.
The FS Aquarius returned to the oil rig, where a third baby bunny was soon found hiding inside a forklift.
The third rabbit was also returned to the mainland, where it was reunited with its siblings.
“All three rabbits are now doing well at our rescue center, and eating us out of house and home,” New Arc said in a Facebook post.
