Rabbit

Cosma / Communication / Knowledge / Realm / Terrestrial / Life /Animal / Mammal / Rabbit
—————————

rabbit : any of various lagomorphs that are born furless, blind, and helpless, that are sometimes gregarious, and that include especially the cottontails of the New World and a small Old World mammal (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that is the source of various domestic breeds — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika). Oryctolagus cuniculus includes the European rabbit species and its descendants, the world’s 305 breeds of domestic rabbit. Sylvilagus includes thirteen wild rabbit species, among them the seven types of cottontail. The European rabbit, which has been introduced on every continent except Antarctica, is familiar throughout the world as a wild prey animal and as a domesticated form of livestock and pet. With its widespread effect on ecologies and cultures, the rabbit (or bunny) is, in many areas of the world, a part of daily life—as food, clothing, and companion, and as a source of artistic inspiration. — Wikipedia

Rabbit (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Rabbits & Hares (One Zoom)
Rabbit (WolframAlpha)

———————–

Adventures

Explore related posts on Cosma …

Bunny Fix! - Easter is here, and it’s time for a bunny fix! I decided to go rummage around YouTube for some bunnies. My quest began with searching for a random cute bunny that I could just watch for a awhile. Instead, I found a 360° video about the Japanese island Okunoshima. Jackpot! This video from NowThis explains … Continue reading Bunny Fix!
Easter Tidings & Tidbits - I’ve been immersed in working on updating Cosma pages about technical subjects like computers and the internet lately. Make that TOO immersed, I needed a break. Given it’s Easter weekend, make that a bunny break! First, I dug up my old Bunny Fix post from 2020. That was fun, but those bunny clips were only … Continue reading Easter Tidings & Tidbits

———————–

Inspiration

Rabbit Island – Okunoshima, Japan (NowThis Impact, YouTube 360° Video)
The Gateway to Rabbit Island (Official Website)
Okunoshima (Wikipedia)

———————-

Innovation

Science

Mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has also been known as “mastology,” “theriology,” and “therology.” The major branches of mammalogy include natural history, taxonomy and systematics, anatomy and physiology, ethology, ecology, and management. — Wikipedia

Mammalogy (Encyclopædia Britannica)

The Science of Mammalogy (The American Society of Mammalogists)

————————–

Preservation

History

Rabbit (World History Encyclopedia)

Library

DDC: 599.32 Rabbits (Library Thing)
Subject: Rabbits (Library Thing)

Subject: Rabbits (Open Library)

Subject: Rabbits (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 737.L32 Rabbits (Library of Congress)
Subject: Rabbits (Library of Congress)

Subject: Rabbits (WorldCat)

—————————

Participation

Education

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Occupation

Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

News

Rabbits (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Rabbits (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Rabbits (JSTOR)
Rabbits (Science Daily)
Rabbits (Science News)
Rabbits (Phys.org)
Rabbits (NPR Archives)

More News …

After a wildfire, Britain's moors and heaths can...
on August 21, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Wildfires that have swept across Britain's upland moors and lowland heaths in unprecedented tinder-dry conditions have left behind expanses of smoking, blackened vegetation.
How can AI help identify pain when animals can't...
on August 18, 2026 at 9:30 pm
A new AI framework, known as SHIC-XE, has been developed to detect signs of pain in horses from video analysis while providing stable, anatomically consistent explanations for its decisions. The framework was developed by an international team of researchers led by Dr. Marcelo Feighelstein, head of the Artificial Intelligence Systems Engineering Program at Tel-Hai University's new Cluster of Engineering and Advanced Computing.
Secrets of a mystery mammal from Patagonia...
on August 18, 2026 at 8:20 pm
Eight years of painstaking research on the virtually unknown Wolffsohn's viscacha have helped to shine the spotlight on this super-rare South American rodent and catalyze the conservation action it so urgently needs.
Topical clove oil for canine sarcoptic mange...
on August 15, 2026 at 5:40 pm
Canine sarcoptic mange (scabies) is a skin condition in which microscopic mites (Sarcoptes scabiei) infest dogs' skin. The condition is contagious and zoonotic and can be difficult to detect. If left untreated, it can cause bleeding sores, malnutrition, emaciation and secondary bacterial infections that may eventually lead to a dog's death.
Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one...
on August 5, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study published today in the journal Evolution by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Princeton University suggests that one of the greatest mysteries of dinosaur evolution isn't how some species became giants—it's why even the smallest dinosaurs never became truly tiny.