Rabbits are super cute creatures, come along to learn some of their characteristics.
1. Do rabbits love to eat carrots?
The impression that rabbits love to eat carrots has long been popular, but do rabbits like to eat carrots in reality?
The hare is a typical herbivore and has a wide diet in the wild, including various non-toxic weeds, seeds, and fruits of plants, as well as branches, leaves, and tender bark of trees.
Among these foods, the hare's favourite is the seedlings and young leaves of legumes, not the carrots of the Umbelliferae family. Carrots are a human-grown crop, and there are not many opportunities for hares to eat them in the wild.
Domestic rabbits are a domesticated species of wild rabbits. Domestic rabbits cannot make their own choices in the event of human feeding because they have lost the ability to actively forage for food during the rearing process.
They have a broad diet and will not refuse carrots if they are fed. However, in the long evolution of adaptation, the rabbit's digestive tract and its digestive flora are fully adapted to digest various weeds, and the relatively high sugar content in carrots is not suitable for the digestive system of wild rabbits.
2. The colour of the eyes
Many people believe that rabbits have red eyes, a reality that does not correspond to reality.
The reality is that rabbits study a variety of colours, including black, blue, grey, etc. Red is only one of them.
Rabbit eye colour is determined by the pigments contained in the body. The red eyes we see in rabbits are not the colour of the rabbit's eyes themselves, but the colour of the blood in the capillaries in the eyeball.
3. Sensitive hearing
Rabbits have a very sensitive sense of hearing. Whenever they put their ears up high, the smallest sound from 10 meters away will be heard. Therefore, even rabbits can determine the enemy behind them without turning around.
After judging the direction of the sound source, rabbits will be on high alert and ready to flee. Only when they are resting do they drop their ears and hold them close to the back of their necks.
4. Super fast running
Rabbits are very good runners. The hare has short forelimbs, slightly longer hind legs, a well-developed waist, and strong limbs, and the entire body always maintains a forward-leaning posture.
When running away, it is very explosive, like a spring, with a maximum speed of 80 kilometres per hour over short distances, and has amazing endurance.
Even at the moment of being caught, the experienced hare will use all its strength to stomp away from its natural enemy, regardless of the pain. The hare's hind legs are so well developed that they generate enough force to break the paws of the golden eagle and kick the incisors off the wolf.
