The Ferals
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The Ferals is an Australian children's comedy television series which aired on ABC from 1994 to 1995. It was created by Wendy Gray and Claire Henderson and featured a mixture of people and animal pupp
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Puppets of the Mixy and Modigliana characters on display at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2026
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Myxomatosis
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Myxomatosis is a disease caused by Myxoma virus, a rabbit poxvirus in the genus Leporipoxvirus. The natural hosts are tapeti in South and Central America, and brush rabbits in North America. The myxom
The Ferals
…sometimes be neurotic, and is generally only slightly smarter than Derryn. In line with the subversive black humour of the show, Mixy is named after the myxomatosis disease, introduced to Australia to reduce the population of feral rabbits. Keith Puppeteer – Mal Heap: Keith is a koala, who loves eating gum leaves…
Myxoma virus
Wild rabbit with inflammation of eyes and nose caused by myxomatosis (Germany).
European rabbit with skin nodules caused by myxomatosis (West Yorkshire, UK)
Pet rabbit with myxomatosis caused by the MSW strain of myxoma virus (Santa Cruz, CA), showing swollen eyelids and genitals