Bastids!
That rabbit could eat YOU, pygmy wol as you be!
That's helps much, thank you!
I'm beginning to think hares and rabbits are quite amazing,
when you consider they are not predators and have almost no defenses except to run fast and multiply.
Even though they reingest .... eeeww. Come to think of it, don't elephants or cows sometimes do the same thing?
(There's a scientific name I don't think I need to know!)
Random thought: Can rabbits or hare swim if they have to?
Sure they can swim!
They reingest only some of their droppings - the ones that have been through only once. I know -ewwwwwww - but life is hard for herbivores - and, being little, rabbits do not have the same length of gut as larger animals do to extract more nutrient from their poor diet. I imagine they do not utilise the ungulate strategy of several tummies and a cud for the same reason.
They are also ornery little buggers - I heard a vet saying on the radio that lots of dear, sweet little bunnies are not good pets, because natural selection has encouraged the stroppiest, meanest little smeggers - the ones who, if caught by a predator, struggle and bite and scartch and kick. And boy! Do they ever have a kick! Those hind legs are waaaay strong - so are the teeth and claws.
They can also reabsorb their young, if there is a drought - in utero, I mean - as well as...well, you know. They don't publicise that much in their media outlets, though.
I've heard they have a blood-curdling scream when fighting to get away. Thankfully never heard it though.
Gerbils or hamsters often eat their young ... I bet it's fairly common in nature. Humans usually think that's terrible, but yet they think it's okay to remove flesh from their babies (without anesthesia) mostly to be sold to the medical industry, to make products out of it. No telling how people will judge what, these days!
BTW -- The url in your signature can be shortened by trimming out the "http://" and the "&highlight=". Those parts aren't actually necessary.
Rabbits are cool.
Time for bed.... Thanks Auntie Lowan! :-) G'night!
Hey - look what somebody sent me!!!
A little something from the "Washington Post Style Invitational" contest.
Readers were asked to submit "instructions" for something (anything),
written in the style of a famous person. The winning entry was The Hokey
Pokey (as written by William Shakespeare):
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke -- o banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
-- by William Shakespeare
(Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls)
Crikey! I had not even THOUGHT of some of them!
dlowan
dlowan wrote about rabbits and hares: "They can also reabsorb their young, if there is a drought - in utero, I mean - as well as...well, you know. They don't publicise that much in their media outlets, though."
Good grief, wait until Tom DeLay hears about that. No more family planning in the burrows. The anti-abortionists will be after them wabbits with chastity belts and counselling. Wow! Just think of all the business opportunities by offering counselling to horny wabbits.
---BumbleBeeBoogie
Don't mention "horny" around dlowan!
Rats, Thought you'd be in bed!
You didn't answer the question - think you can distract me, do you?
Huh!
Oh goody - a fight <rubs his hands in glee>
Given that Coneys are beasts, what, pray tell, is he to voie here that is not beastly?
Now she is worked up againe, watch out boys, cover the genitalia and eyes!
I was sympathetic to Monty. He, at least, was able to get on top of his weird situation enough to gather some awareness about the world around him and make something out of it. The kids, well, they got themselves into every scrape on their own. (Wouldn't mind having the long-haired guy in the next to last scene around, though, I kin tell ya that.)
Thank you much, Cav.........I'm printing it out. How did I miss this one? No fair, I can't be everywhere at all times doing all, seeing all..........I try, but alas, I fail.
