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Rabbit Diet Facts
- A Rabbit is a plant-eater, which means it’s a herbivore.
- Rabbits often eat foods like hay, vegetables, and grass.
- It is important to keep Rabbits eating healthy and the foods they can digest well because they do not have the ability to vomit.
- Rabbits chew about 120 times a minute.
- Rabbits eat their own poop because they need to digest some of their food twice.
Rabbit Size
- A Rabbit’s ears can grow as long as 4 inches or 10 cm; however, some species of Rabbits can grow longer ears.
- A Rabbit can grow to become 4 feet long.
Facts about Rabbit Characteristics
- When Rabbits are born, they do not have fur and their eyes are closes.
- Rabbits can live to about to a few years old in the wild and around 8 years if kept as pets.
- They can turn their ears 180 degrees, which helps them be able to pinpoint the exact location of the sound.
- Rabbits need space and time to build up their bones when they are young. If a young bunny does not receive space to jump around, it cannot strengthen its bones. Therefore, when it gets older, the bones will break easily.
- If a Rabbit is spayed or neutered, they can live as long as 12 years old.
- A Rabbits tooth never stops growing, but they also wear down their teeth quickly because they chew so much. Therefore, their teeth never get too long.
- Rabbits tend to be the most active in the evening and in the morning as they nap a lot during the day. This is one reason they make excellent pets for people who are working or in school during the day.
- A Rabbit’s ears can hear from two directions at the same time.
- Rabbits can be terrified of water and become hurt when they thrash around the water.
Rabbit Behaviors
- Rabbits are territorial and do not like it when people or other animals impose on their space.
- Rabbits use their bodies when they are communicating. For instance, if they are worries, they will change their body position and clench their facial muscles.
- Rabbits are social and tend to get lonely when they are by themselves.
- Rabbits can be trained to do many different things, such as use a litter box.
- Rabbits want to be very clean so they will groom themselves, or allow others to groom them, at least five times a day.
- When a Rabbit is happy, it will jump in the air and spin around. This is called binky.
- Another way to tell that a Rabbit is happy is to listen to the chattering noises with its teeth, which people refer to as a Rabbit’s purr.
- If you have a pet Rabbit and want to help it prevent osteoporosis and keep it happy, you should play with the Rabbit and makes sure it gets exercise at least four hours a day.
Rabbit Threats
- Humans are a big threat to Rabbits as they tend to kill them for their fur.
Rabbit Habitat Facts
- The European Rabbit is known to live underground in what is called a burrow.
- A Rabbit burrow tends to have rooms, which are their nesting areas. They also tend to have a lot of exits for a fast escape if needed.
- Rabbits tend to live in groups.
- Rabbits are often chosen as pets, these Rabbits are commonly known as House Rabbits.
- Rabbits are often found in animal shelters and are tend to be one of the most common animals brought to an animal shelter.
- Rabbits are the third most comment household pet, coming right after dogs and cats.
Rabbit Family
- A baby Rabbit is also called a kit or kitten.
- A female Rabbit is also known as a doe.
- A male Rabbit is also known as a buck.
- Rabbits are known to be able to reproduce very fast and they have multiple litters of babies every year.
- The gestation period for a Rabbit is only about a month.
- Rabbits can have about 12 babies in one litter.
- Rabbits are not the same species as a hare.
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