Rabbits
In Redwall
- Alignment: Good
- Appearance: Rabbits may or may not be bipedal - Jacques never
really says.
- Diet: Probably what all other goodbeasts eat.
- Habitat: Warrens?
- Typical Personality: Unknown. There has only been one book
with rabbits in it, and those were only in there for a short time.
They were very prissy.
- Habits: Unkown.
Outside Redwall
- Classification: Species: Oryctolagus cuniculus
- Other Names: European rabbit
- Appearance: Rabbits are usually around 40 cm long and weigh 1-7kg, with males being generally heavier than females.
- Life Span: Over 90% of all rabbits die in their first year of life,
and the rest don't live longer than three years in the wild.
- Diet: Rabbits are herbivores, as can be seen by their diet -
grasses, cereal crops, root vegetables and young shoots of meadow plants.
They'll even eat tree bark when other food sources are scarce.
- Habitat: Rabbits are found anywhere that they can burrow - sand
dunes, railway verges and even in urban areas. Many prefer woodland
edge and hedgerows, as that's close to a reliable food source. Rabbits
live in a network of tunnels, dens, and bolt holes called a warren.
The females do most of the tunneling. Warrens can house anywhere from
one pair to thirty rabbits at a time.
- Typical Personality: Like many prey animals, rabbits are wary and a
bit nervous, but less so than the smaller rodents. They have a
distinct social order, with dominant bucks and dominant does, and the
establishing of the social order can cause injury or even death among both
does and bucks.
- Habits: Rabbits can dig well enough, as mentioned before.
They stomp when alarmed, drumming the earth with their back legs as a
warning to other rabbits. Rabbits are mostly nocturnal.
- Life Cycle: Does can produce one litter of 3 - 7 kits a month in
the breeding season, which is from January to August. Rabbit kittens
are born deaf, blind, and furless. Eyes open at ten days and they are
weaned at 21 - 25 days. Bucks become adults at 4 months and does at
3.5 months.
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