14 Fascinating Facts about Rabbits:
1. A female rabbit is called a doe and a male rabbit is called a buck.
2. A baby rabbit is called a kit or kitten.
3. Rabbits live in groups, underground, in burrows. These burrows are little routs underground that have thousands of tunnels leading off into small ‘rooms’. The hole that is visible from above the ground is very small so that the rabbits can roam around freely on the ground and when a predator comes, they can quickly run into the tunnels. The predator won’t fit into the small hole and will go away after a while. What they don’t know is that there are hundreds of rabbits under the ground hiding from him.
4. A group of rabbits is called a herd just like a horse herd.
5. Rabbits have an exceptionally good nose, therefore,
they sense
most of their
surroundings through scents. A rabbit's least effective sense is its vision because they spend a lot of their time underground where there is no light.
6. Rabbits have long ears, but they don’t use them to help them hear better. They use their ears to keep their body temperature consistent.
7. More than half of the world’s rabbits live in North America, which is crazy because rabbits are common house pets.
8. Rabbits have a lifespan of around 10 years, and they are born with no fur and their eyes closed.
9. Rabbits reproduce astonishingly quickly, which is useful to house rabbit (pet rabbit) sellers.
10. Happy rabbits jump up in the air and spin around which is called binky. They do this to lose energy, like when you ate lots of sugary sweets and are on a sugar rush. House rabbits do this more often because they are locked up in cages sometimes.
11. There are more than 30 species of rabbits around the world. Even though they can look very different, they have a lot of things common.
12. Rabbit breeds are classified into five body type
s: full arch, semi-arch, compact, commercial, cylindrical.
13. Rabbits actually don’t eat carrots because it has too much sugar in it. Instead they eat green plants like basil and salad.
14. The word rabbit in 15 different languages:
1) Finnish: Kani
2) Dutch: Konjin
3) German: Hase
4) Estonian: Janes
5) French: Lapin
6) Spanish: Conejo
7) Hungarian: Nyúl
8) Greek: Kounéli
9) Latin: Lepus
10) Albanian: Lepur
11) Croatian: Zec
12) Vietnamese: Con Tho
13) Irish: Coinín
14) Italian: Coniglio
15) Swedish: Kanin