Rabbits
Family: Leporidae
Diet: Herbivore
Size: Typically between 8-20 inches
Weight: Typically between 1-4 lbs
Location: Most places on Earth
Personality: Usually Passive
Life Span: About 3 years
Diet: Herbivore
Size: Typically between 8-20 inches
Weight: Typically between 1-4 lbs
Location: Most places on Earth
Personality: Usually Passive
Life Span: About 3 years
Rabbits Around the Earth
Rabbits can be found in most parts of the earth. The biggest population is in North America. They can also be found in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
Rabbit Menus
Rabbits are herbivores as well as fibrevores. Say what? Herbivore means that rabbits only eat plant based foods, like grass and hay. Fibrevore means that a rabbit's digestion depends largely on fiber, which they get from that grass and hay they eat.
Fibrevores are unique and actually have an appendix called the cecum. The point of the cecum is to ferment the fiber they eat. Breaking it down to be easier to digest..but at this point it is formed into little pellets and removed from the body. But these pellets are not poo, they are called caecotrophs. I like to call them vitamins for the fibrevores, because they actually will eat these pellets so they can redigest the food they already have eaten. This helps them get the most out of their food.
It is imperative rabbits eat these "vitamins" to be healthy. If they do not get to eat them their health will suffer badly. So while it may seem gross to us, it is natural for rabbits and other fibrevores, like Guinea Pigs and Chinchillas.
Fibrevores are unique and actually have an appendix called the cecum. The point of the cecum is to ferment the fiber they eat. Breaking it down to be easier to digest..but at this point it is formed into little pellets and removed from the body. But these pellets are not poo, they are called caecotrophs. I like to call them vitamins for the fibrevores, because they actually will eat these pellets so they can redigest the food they already have eaten. This helps them get the most out of their food.
It is imperative rabbits eat these "vitamins" to be healthy. If they do not get to eat them their health will suffer badly. So while it may seem gross to us, it is natural for rabbits and other fibrevores, like Guinea Pigs and Chinchillas.
Rabbitats
So what does a rabbit's house look like? Well most rabbits, except the Eastern Cottontail(featured in the video above), live in undergrown burrows. These burrows house a group of rabbits known as a colony, and a group of the rabbit burrows is called a warren. Here is what a rabbit burrow looks like from the outside.
Multiplying Rabbits
So do rabbits really multiply like you've probably heard someone say? Not exactly. While rabbits do have a lot of babies at once, so do rodents, which rabbits used to be classified as. Now they are in the order of Lagomorph. I think they should still be rodents, but that's another story.
When rabbits do have babies they generally have 4-12 babies at a time. Female rabbits can get pregnant every 4-6 days or so..so these baby rabbits could add up pretty quickly. Rabbits are pregnant for about a month. When baby rabbits are born, they are blind, furless and cannot hear. So for the first few weeks of their lives they need their mommy to care for them. They can be weaned at about 5-8 weeks of age, obviously benefiting being able to nurse for the most time they can.
When rabbits do have babies they generally have 4-12 babies at a time. Female rabbits can get pregnant every 4-6 days or so..so these baby rabbits could add up pretty quickly. Rabbits are pregnant for about a month. When baby rabbits are born, they are blind, furless and cannot hear. So for the first few weeks of their lives they need their mommy to care for them. They can be weaned at about 5-8 weeks of age, obviously benefiting being able to nurse for the most time they can.