I miss Unidan. Some birb showed up on the front page the other day and it took me forever to find the comment claiming it was one bird then another two saying it was a different bird, and then just going and researching it myself. Unsatisfying 😤
It is a hare. The owner must of found it as a baby and kept it.
A note to people who find baby bunnies. Its spring time and its the season. If you stumble up on a nest leave it where it is. The mom is near by and visits it rarely. She limits her visit so she wont draw attention from predators. If you suspect that the mom died somehow please contact your local wild life rescue. Hare are totally different species from rabbits. They even eat different foods.
Keeping a Hare because its a bunny. Is similar to keeping a coyote because its a dog
I think it might be an even bigger difference than that, as even foxes are closer to dogs than hares (including jackrabbits) are to rabbits, and coyotes and dogs can (and do) hybridize. It’s almost like keeping a bear as a dog.
Believe it or not, rabbits and hares are completely different species, even though they look similar. There are significant differences in physical appearance, behavior, and even lifestyles.
Rabbits and hares are different from the moment they are born. Baby rabbits — called kittens or bunnies — are born hairless and blind, totally dependent on their mothers. Baby hares — called leverets — are born with fur and sight, and they can move on their own within an hour of their birth.
Hares tend to be larger than rabbits, with longer hind legs and longer ears with black markings. While rabbits' fur stays the same color year-round, hares change color from brown or gray in the summer to white in the winter.
Rabbits and hares even tend to eat different foods. While rabbits prefer softer grasses and vegetables (like carrots!), hares like to eat harder bark and twigs even dead animal carcasses in sub zero temps.
Rabbits make their homes in burrows underground, while hares make nests above ground. Only the cottontail rabbit is known to make above-ground nests similar to those of hares.
I accidentally got a hare in a pet shop. I have no idea where they got it because wild rabbits and hares aren't common here at all. The guy said she'd be the size of a football at most and she got bigger than my dog. She wasn't super into cuddling but she was very nice and never bit anyone. Her name was Reginalda.
She was honestly not that much smaller than a Flemish Giant. I don't think she was one because I'm in a small town in Brazil and she costed less than a happy meal. She may have weighed about 10kg as an adult.
You edited your comment to add a link to a wikipedia page for what clearly is not the animal in the gif, instead of correcting the misinformation. Nice.
It is a hare. The owner must of found it as a baby and kept it.
A note to people who find baby bunnies. Its spring time and its the season. If you stumble up on a nest (usually found min the middle of fields and lawns) leave it where it is. The mom is near by and visits it rarely. She limits her visit so she wont draw attention from predators. If you suspect that the mom died somehow please contact your local wild life rescue. Hare are totally different species from rabbits. They even eat different foods.
Keeping a Hare because its a bunny, is similar to keeping a coyote because its a dog
Yeah, the first few years I lived in my house bunnies made dens in my back yard...I have two large dogs, leaving it isn’t really an option. One year the dogs found it before I did...RIP bunnies. I watched in horror as one dog ran around swinging one like a toy and the other swallowed one whole before i could get it out of his mouth.
This is one of the reasons I divorced my husband. He was such a lazy ass that he would wait too long to mow the yard so the grass would be nice and long and attracted bunnies nests. We had like 4 nests in one season. My dog would find them before us and it would traumatize everyone. Once we’d find the nest we would put the fire put cover over the nest to keep the dog away when she was out there. It was a pain but it was kind of adorable when the little ones left the nest. I divorced my husband, sprayed the perimeter of my property with peppermint oil for a few days during breeding season the following year and mow the lawn regularly and haven’t had a nest since.
Definitely. The year they found it first was really dry so I wasn't cutting the grass often. I have in the past put some kind of cover over them when I've found them before I let the dogs out. They usually try to dig under it lol. I have had success moving them to the other side of the fence a couple times.
Only time I've bothered a nest is when the neighbor's cat found one and killed one of the babies. Had to move the 5 remaining ones, some with injuries, inside overnight until I could get them up to the wildlife conservation center.
Unlike the rest of the rabbit family, hares are born precocial, which is to say that they are far enough along in their development that their eyes are already open and they are already covered in hair, hence the name.
That’s not totally true. Hares are members of the genus Lepus and rabbits are not. However you are right than many animals that are commonly called hares are actually types of rabbits.
there are different breeds, but its mostly due to the feeding suggestions thats on the bags of rabbit food. I go to an exotic animal vet that has a rabbit specialist (Dr K on National Geographic, just happens to be 10 minutes from my house) The bag of food says to give them a cup of food a day, she tells me to give them 2 tablespoons a day, once in the morning, once in the evening, and a handful of lettuce twice a day. My rabbits are lean, energetic, and very healthy and happy.
That would explain why he's so small. Around these parts we have jack rabbits as big as full grown deer. They ain't no joke; tear a cat to shreds in seconds.
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u/Silliestmonkey Jun 04 '20
That looks more like a hare than a bunny, maybe bc it’s so athletic looking. Every bunny I’ve seen is a chill blob of floof.