10/03/2022
FUN FACTS ABOUT RABBITS
🐰 Bunnies clench their facial muscles and change their body position when they are feeling worried; signs you wouldn’t notice if you weren’t looking out for them.
🐰🐰 These masters of hearing can turn their ears 180 degrees.
🐰🐰🐰 And that impressive rotation can pinpoint the exact location of a sound.
🐰🐰🐰🐰 Because they are a prey species, life is all about survival and they are in a constant state of alert.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Baby rabbits are called kits.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Rabbits are social creatures and are happiest in the company of their own species.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Rabbits find travelling even on short car journeys extremely stressful.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Rabbits need a constant supply of hay or fresh grass to nibble on – in fact, 90 per cent of their daily diet should be made up of the stuff.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Bunnies ‘binky’ when they’re happy. You’ll know a rabbit is binkying because the happy hop in the air, twist of the body, and kicking of the feet look unmistakably like pure joy.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Young rabbits that don’t have enough space to run about are more likely to break bones, according to studies. This is because they don’t get the right opportunities to build up their bodies properly.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Rabbits have almost 360 degree vision but they are born with their eyes shut.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 Hypnotising a rabbit is actually really traumatic for them. Sometimes called ‘trancing’, the action of placing a rabbit on their back and stroking their back legs. When a rabbit is held in this position they go into ‘tonic immobility’.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 When rabbits grab their ears and bring them down across their faces to give them a wash, you are officially watching one of the cutest animal behaviours in existence.
Source: bluecross.org.uk
