TIL that in the 90's Australian kids show The Ferals, one of the characters, a rabbit puppet, is called Mixy M. Toasus. Named after Myxomatosis, which was introduced to Australia to reduce the population of feral rabbits in 1950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ferals#Puppets
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