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Short History Of  Rabbit:

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha.It found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits including the European rabbit . The male is called a buck and the female is a doe.A young rabbit is called a kitten or kit. Rabbit habitats include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands. Rabbits live in groups. A group of burrows is called a warren.

The rabbit's long ears which can be more than 10 cm long. They have large powerful hind legs. The two front paws have 5 toes the extra called the dewclaw. The hind feet have 4 toes. They are plantigrade animals.They move around on their toes while running. Wild rabbits do not differ much in their body proportions or stance with full egg-shaped bodies. Their size can range anywhere from 20 cm in length and 0.4 kg in weight to 50 cm long and more than 2 kg.weight. The fur is most commonly long and soft with colors such as shades of brown, gray, and buff. The tail is a little plume of brownish fur.

Rabbits are hindgut digesters. This means that most of their digestion takes place in their large intestine and cecum. In rabbits the cecum is about 10 times bigger than the stomach and it along with the large intestine makes up roughly 40% of the rabbit's digestive tract. The unique musculature of the cecum allows the intestinal tract of the rabbit to separate fibrous material from more digestible material. Cecotropes, sometimes called "night feces", are high in minerals, vitamins and proteins that are necessary to the rabbit's health. Rabbits eat these to meet their nutritional requirements, the mucous coating allows the nutrients to pass through the acidic stomach for digestion in the intestines. This process allows rabbits to extract the necessary nutrients from their food.

Rabbits have a very rapid reproductive rate. The breeding season for most rabbits lasts 9 months. Normal gestation is about 30 days. The average size of the litter varies but is usually between 4 and 12 babies. A kit (baby rabbit) can be weaned at about 4 to 5 weeks of age. This means in one season a single female rabbit can produce as many as 800 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. A doe is ready to breed at about 6 months of age, and a buck at about 7 months. Courtship and mating are very brief, lasting only 30 to 40 seconds. Courtship behavior involves licking, sniffing, and following the doe. Spraying urine is also a common sexual behavior. Female rabbits are reflex ovulators. The female rabbit also may or may not lose clumps of hair during the gestation period.

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