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Nature & Animals influenced Watership Down
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
- Rabbits
- The Berkshire Downs
The evidence
Richard Adams drew his rabbits' behaviour from R. M. Lockley's study The Private Life of the Rabbit and set their journey on the real downs of Berkshire, which the film follows, painted from the actual landscape.
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