Jump to content

Talk:Rabbit

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Musculature

[edit]

There is a grammatical error in this section that I would like to correct. Julietta Swift (talk) 08:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As food...

[edit]

There is a pop culture reference here that I think is worth mentioning. The South Sydney rugby league team, the Rabbitohs, is not named after rabbits (although that is unavoidably their symbol), but the people who sold hunted rabbits in the street in the afternoon during the Depression, who called "rabbit-oh" for anyone who may have been looking for cheap meat for dinner. Julietta Swift (talk) 09:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rabbit

[edit]

In the article on rabbits, there is no mention of what these animals eat. Nothing. Zero. An obsession with categorization-- check. How to tell a rabbit from a hare-- check. An explanation as to why a Belgian hare is really a rabbit-- alrighty then. But not a word about what they eat? WTF. You gotta have a section on what an animal eats-- not just on humans eating them. Even Encyclopaedia Brittanica got this right-- a century before Al Gore invented the internet. Someone needs to jump on this task right away. Hop to it before readers begin gnawing on raw cabbages, out of frustration. Or raw carrots-- yum. 172.87.18.207 (talk) 10:12, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be a section on the diet of rabbits, but no one ever added references. The whole thing got collapsed into Cecotrophy years ago. I added a little about the diet from textbook of rabbit medicine. There's some stuff later on about a myth of carrot rich diets as well. Reconrabbit 12:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Behaviors in pets

[edit]

Most of the info under "Behaviors" such as binkies and flopping appeared only relevant to domestic rabbits, and it wasn't even relevant enough to appear in that article, so I deleted it. I'm willing to reinstate the info if there are sources other than pet lifestyle blogs to support it or references on wild animals demonstrating the behavior, but I'm not finding any so far. Reconrabbit 18:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]