Rabbit Try Hard for Mating!

Rabbit Try Hard for Mating!

Rabbits have been domesticated since Roman times, and possibly even from before that.

Rabbits really do breed like rabbits. The female is ready to breed almost any time, and she’ll have a litter of babies about 30 days after breeding. These bipedal herbivores eat a diet of mostly green foods, but they are also opportunistic feeders that will eat seeds, fruit, and bark. They live in large groups in underground tunnels called warrens with anything from a few to dozens of roommates.

Scientific Name

The scientific name for these animals depends on what kind of rabbit is being discussed. In general, they belong to the order Lagomorpha and the family Leporidae, while the hare does not. Within that genus are dozens of rabbit names that include the scientific name for the rabbit as a part of the classification.

The taxonomy list includes rabbits such as Oryctolagus cuniculus, the scientific name covering all pet rabbits. In this name, the word Oryctolagus represents the genus name and cuniculus is the species. Some of the other rabbits covered in the taxonomy here include the genus Nesolagus, which covers the Sumatran striped rabbit, Nesolagus netscheri, and the Annamite striped rabbit, Nesolagus timminsi.

It also covers the genus Pentalagus, which includes the Amami rabbit, and Pentalagus furnessi, plus the genus Poelagus, which includes the Central African Rabbit, the Poelagus marjorita. There are many others since we’re talking about more than 300 breeds, but these are a few of the major ones covered by the various classification listings.

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 Rabbit Try Hard for Mating!