Rabbits are not members of the rodent family, rabbits are Lagomorphs. However, the rabbit does look like a rodent in some ways. Lagomorphs are mammals and they have live young that they carry for about thirty-three days and the young drink the mother’s milk. A mother rabbit will nurse the baby rabbits once per day for a very short time.
The baby rabbits will be, weaned at about six to eight weeks of age. Then a female rabbit can reproduce when she is three to four months of age. A female rabbit is capable of being pregnant with two litters of babies at the same time.
A rabbit has twenty-eight teeth and a rabbits teeth will continue to grow through the rabbit’s entire life. This is why the rabbit constantly chews on hard objects to file down or wear down the teeth. If the teeth grow too long or grow improperly then the rabbit would not be able to eat and can die as a result.
Rabbit meat is a much healthier meat for human consumption. Rabbit meat has practically no fat or calories and the rabbit meat is all white meat. Therefore, rabbit meat is good for you.
A rabbit’s droppings are high in phosphorus and nitrogen making the dropping good to mix with soil for gardening and for flowerbeds. Worm farmers even use the rabbit dropping to feed to the worms and the droppings keep the soil warm for the worms to live in. A rabbit eats some of its own dropping called Cecotrope, these droppings are, packed with vital nutrients that the rabbit needs to survive and remain healthy. The nutrients are produced in the rabbits own body and then stored inside the Cecotrope.
A healthy well cared for rabbit can live for as many as 12 years or longer. If the rabbit is, kept indoors and properly, care for and fed the proper foods. Rabbits that live outside or even in the wild have a life span of only a few years at the most; this is because the rabbits are, exposed to the harsh weather conditions and there is a greater chance of the rabbit falling prey to a predator.
Rabbits are nocturnal animals this means that the rabbits only move around mostly during the nighttime under the cover of darkness. This greatly reduces the chances of the rabbit falling prey to a large predator animal. The rabbits eyes can see well in the dark and the eye colors of the rabbits are pink not red as most people think, the eyes can also be brown, blue, blue grey, and or a marbled color.
The smallest breed of rabbit recorded living in America is the pygmy weighs less than 1 pound. The largest rabbit was, recorded to weigh over twenty-six pounds.
The last interesting fact about rabbits is that a rabbit can jump a span of approximately eight to nine feet long and approximately three feet in height.