April 7, 2021 • 51 mins
We’re talking all things lagomorphs, from hares to rabbits to domesticated bunnies! We’ll learn that rabbits don’t lay colorful eggs, but they DO eat their own poop! Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: could a rabbit fly on those ears with enough thrust? Find out with our special guest Joelle Monique!
Footnotes:
- Pika (but no pikachu)!
- A black-tailed jackrabbit
- Another jackrabbit
- Newborn HARES come out HAIRY
- Newborn rabbits come out NUDE
- The rare amani rabbit
- FLEMISH GIANT RABBIT
- Pygmy rabbit (juveniles)
- Netherland dwarf rabbit (haunted version)
- Netherland dwarf rabbit (with more fluff)
- English lop
- Fluffiest angora rabbit
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Creature Future production of I Heart Radio. I'm
your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology
and evolutionary biology, and today on the show Bunnies, Buns, Buns, Buns,
spun spun spunspun spuns, We're talking all things lago morphs,
from hairs to rabbits to domesticated bunnies. We'll learn that
(00:28):
rabbits don't like colorful eggs. What they do eat their
own poop. Discover this more as we answer the ansual question,
but a rabbit fly on those ears with enough thrust.
Joining me today is close friend of the pod, producer
at I Heeart radio, writer for a V Club and fulture,
producer of Fake Doctor's Real Friends, and my buddy Joel Monique. Hi,
(00:51):
how are you good? It's so good to have you back.
I'm so glad to be back, especially talking about the
most adorable features on God's Earth. I level bun buns
and the bunnies. Yes, yes, we got we got the bunnies.
We got so many bunnies. I got a lot of
(01:12):
requests to do bunny sd um follow. Your audience has
always been great, and clearly their excellence hasn't slowed down
in my absence. They have very good taste in terms
of episodes. And uh, I'll just read a couple of
the emails I got asking for bunny. So this was
from Max who got a bunny rabbit called Dr SEUs,
(01:36):
And uh, Max writes for such a quiet animal, they
have their own unique language of communication. Thumps, bump, bumping, feet, flicks, nudging, flopping.
There's so many ways, my bunny, this is me in
rabbit language every day. It might also be a good
place to plug that rabbits aren't the easy beginner pets
that they are often sold as in pet stores. The
(01:56):
shelter volunteer with is overrun with bunnies that how been abandoned.
I feel like people often think bunnies are cute but
don't realize the depth of care that they require. And
that's from Max. Thank you, Max. Yeah, that's I think
that's a really good thing to note. Bunnies require a
lot of space and exercise, and they have lots of needs.
I mean, heck, they are built for running around. Uh.
(02:20):
They're not just a cute little table sort of setting
that you put in a basket for Easter. It's not
a hamster. Y'all. Okay, they are not they're not. They're
not made out of chocolate, so don't even try that. Um,
do not bite your bunnies. Foot is lucky, but only
(02:40):
while it's attached to the bunny. Yes, yes, exactly, yes.
So I mean I think rabbits can make good pets,
but like all pets, they require a lot of care
and they are a commitment. Domesticated rabbits can live around
ten years if even if not longer. So yeah, if
you want to get a on your rabbit, do your
(03:01):
research first because they require lots of care, lots of attention,
and they're different from cats and dogs. They require different things,
Like you're not going to be able to well maybe
some people can get their rabbit to use a litter box,
but in general, no, they're not going to do that.
So what magician is training their rabbit use a litter box?
That seems oh man, that's like cats that use the toilet.
(03:24):
That's the next level dog or next level animal training. Yeah,
I think I don't know, like how reliable the litter
box training would be for a bunny rabbit. I feel
like that would be if the rabbit feels like it uh.
And this is from Jessica, who writes, I think it's
about time you gave some lagomorph love and cleared up
(03:46):
the nasty rumor that rabbits are rodents, even though I
love plus pikas. So yes, let's talk about rabbits, let's
talk about lago morphs, and let's talk about pikas. So
even know what a pika is, it's what a pikachu says,
Pika pika. Oh my god, now I'm kidding U. So, yeah,
(04:08):
what is a bunny? You know? It seems like a
simple enough question, but it's got pretty long answer. So rabbits,
hairs and jack rabbits are all lago morphs, which are
a distinct order of animals, separate from rodents. So no,
they are not rodents. Are they cousins of transmorphers, of
(04:31):
of animals or of animals? Listening all all of the
morphing abilitied animals do laga morphs? Chair characteristics? Mighty morphine
rabbit rangers show ten thousand lot all the cuteness of bunnies.
(04:53):
A bunny forming like a mega bunny that shoots missiles. Yeah, no,
I'm into it. Imagine if bunnies could missiles. Nobody's they're
gonna be defenders of the innocent. That would be Oh yeah.
So picas are actually the other members of Laga morpha.
(05:13):
So they are found in rocky mountainous regions in North
America and Asia. And they don't really look too much
like rabbits. They look like an adorable cross between a
rabbit and a mouse. Their ears are short and round,
and they grow to be just about over a half
a foot in length, about fifteen to twenty centimeters, and
(05:34):
they're very noisy with these loud, little squeaking calls. So yeah,
they they when you look at when it would be
hard to really guess that they would be related to
a bunny, looks more like an overgrown mouse. Yes, but
like all of these characteristics of a mouse that I
find scary not present here. Like, yes, obviously they look
(05:56):
like but their whiskers are like double the size of
their face. Itch. First of all, just make instantly more adorable. Okay. Uh.
The ears are so like maybe half the size of
their heads. So I think like Mickey mout you know,
like he has like a characteris each you have a
mouth with the big ears. This mouse is an actual
living Mickey Mouse is a pike, that is what I'm saying. Yeah,
(06:17):
since what Mickey Mouse wishes he was. Truly, he's so
in the furs like longer. I can't see a tail
in this, so I'm not sure what we're dealing. Are
we dealing with long roaded tail? Yeah, they have like
pretty smooth butt, so I don't think they have much
of It's sort of more like a hamster situation. I'm
pretty in the running for hugest animal on the planet. Um.
(06:40):
Other animals are really gonna need to bring their game.
Oh when they carry little foods in their mouth, a
little flowers, yeah, it's so cute. They like to use
vegetation to line their burrows, so sometimes they're carrying flowers
around and they will use that to help line their
burrow or or to eat, and it's very cute. Well,
the natural next question is are they domesticated? Could you
(07:03):
bring one into your home and they love it as
a pet companion? I don't think so. No, I know,
I'm sorry. I mean, you know, if there if you
want something like a domesticated pike, I guess a gerbil
would be the closest thing. They're not. They're not all
that look similar. That's true. I've owned many a druble
(07:26):
and I loved them, and they are great pets. This
is not derbl slander. I'm just saying, not anti Gerbil.
The pika is future, that's true. It's chair. I can't
deny it. Oh my gosh. There's a book called American
Pike as Little Cheap Hairs of the West, Dr John.
I don't know if it's any good, but the cover adorable.
And if there's a picture book of just these like
(07:47):
great little hairs from the West, I have to look
to see if I need to purchase it. I mean
now I want. It's sort of like five Al goes
West and get rid of that mouse, repair pike, get
him out of here. Minus are over camps, reclassified Mickey
as the pike he's always been and move for Oh
(08:10):
my word, okay, I could go down that Google rabbit
hole forever. So that is those are indeed part of
the Lagomorpha order. And in terms of what we think
of as bunnies and rabbits, there are rabbits hairs and
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jack rabbits, and these are in the family lapoora day,
so they all share similar features. They have big hind
legs and long ears the classic rabbit shape. So the
difference between rabbits versus hairs and jack rabbits is really interesting.
So hairs and jack rabbits tend to be a bit
(08:56):
larger and leaner, with much bigger ears and are Also
they have different behaviors, so they're more solitary. Rabbits will
often live in social groups. They live in warrens, which
are these groups of burrows, whereas hairs typically live in
pairs or on their own. In fact, with rabbits, the
(09:19):
social life of rabbits can be really extravagant. So larger
rabbit warrens, such as European rabbit warrens, can house around
twenty individuals with multiple entrances. You've ever read Bunny Apartment Complex, Yes, exactly,
if you've ever read Watership Down. First of all, I'm sorry,
(09:40):
and secondly you know what I'm talking about. Yeah that listen.
If you're into the bunnies and you love them, don't
watch Watership Down. Okay, it'll traiti you. Absolutely. This new one,
this for the children, the new fingled one. Uh. It
tells the same story, but it's like toned down. The
(10:00):
graphic nature like eight. Is that the Yes, yeah, it's fine,
it's good. It's probably better that you watch that one
appared to the one from the seventies. It's just a
blood bath. It was a blood bath of chaos and horror.
I watched that movie as an adult. I discovered waters
Down at like six and was emotionally scarred. I was like,
(10:21):
who did this? I can't imagine having seen it for
the first time as a child. I read the books
as a kid, and yeah, they were bad. I mean
they were excellent books, very very literature, very good books.
Very sad about the bunnies though, and all the horrible
things they go through. Yeah, it's it's tough. I will say.
(10:43):
These jack rabbits, though, I feel like I don't see
I feel like we, as our media, has not done
enough for them as we have done for the stereotypical
rabbits that we are more familiar with. Because, first of all,
these ears are iconic. I imagine it's because they cool down,
(11:04):
cool them down. They're like very thin, lots of veins
running through them, exactly very good guests, their statuesque. They're tall,
big beautiful eyes, and I feel like, you know, a
warrior spirit coming from this animal, like it could f
it's prey. Up. No, I agree. I love hairs. I
(11:26):
mean rabbits are very cute, love them. But there's something
mystical about a hair, like it looks like it has
seen into the universe and it has infinite wisdom, and
it's also like a warrior. It's really they're very cool
looking animals, like like badass. Yeah. Yeah, like I decided
(11:48):
to combine. I would say it's like an owl meets
an elephant in a smaller body, Like you give all
the wisdom of both the owl and the elephants, but
also you know, all the ferociousness of the owls. Owls
are all talents and claws and elephants you know, despite
that that they're like impacts. You know that you can't
mess with an elephant's crew. Yeah, jack rabbit is very impressive. Yeah. Yeah,
(12:12):
they they look like they can tell the future and
also kick your butt. And so there are there are
differences in terms of their development between these hairs and
the rabbits. So baby rabbits are actually born blind and helpless,
and they tend to be born Yeah, they're the little pink,
(12:33):
little jelly bean, you know, just like like a kitten
or a puppy when they're born and they're just a
little pink tube of cuteness like that, that's a baby bunny.
Like newborn baby rabbits are pink, furless, blind, helpless, and
that that's why it also helps, like they have these
social structures, the burrows and the larger warrens, and that
(12:53):
helps out with babies that are born more defenseless because
they're born in h a sort of protected area, whereas
baby hairs are born already able to see, they already
have fur, and they're already able to fit for themselves.
And they're typically born in a nest of grass above
ground rather than in a burrow. First of all, a
(13:13):
newborn hair Okay, I obviously I'm gonna be calling everything cute,
but like as cute as the pike is, it's got
fur you can brush in. His ears are so like
many but big fruit's body even still tiny in his
little beady eyes. Oh my goodn't want a pet one
(13:34):
I shouldn't, but I want to. They are adorable. They fit,
you know, in the palm of your hand. They just
look like little kutius And I like the you know
when like a baby kitten or puppy or baby rabbit
is born in the little pink, a little weird pink
weirdos that they are. I like that, but it is
(13:54):
like astonishing when a baby is born like a baby
animal and they just already have they're little fluffy fur
and they look just kind of like a miniaturized version
of the adults. It's really cute. Um. The baby hairs
are called leveretts, and the baby rabbits are called kittens. Okay,
(14:17):
that's weird science. What are we doing? Why Why are
baby rabbits called kittens? I don't understand. Yeah, they I
don't know that. They call a lot of a lot
of baby mammals are called kittens, baby foxes, baby cats,
baby bunnies. I'm getting guests, Probably a lot of other
(14:39):
baby animals are also called kittens. Um, but yeah, they
aren't just baby cats. You can also call baby rabbits kits. Yeah,
I've got I've heard of kids before, which I suppose
I should have just connected that kids is short for
kittens and babe kitten just at one point in the
baby's tiny baby things. Sometimes guys in the old days
(15:00):
ladies kitten. So I don't know, I'm trying to put
working together here. I'm trying to make the mathwork for me.
It's so weird to call a little baby bunny at
kitten if you ask me, they're also the males are
called bucks and the females are called does, just like deer.
So a little confusing too, because then you think, well,
(15:20):
wouldn't you call the baby's fawns? But no, then they're
called leveretts or kittens. So yeah, who knows what was
going on when people were naming these things. I just
think of old timey scientists who were around the time
when we still had a chance to name stuff, is
just constantly drunk on meat or out of their minds,
just eating everything they discover and just like, yes, we'll
(15:44):
call this one a hair because it has hair, you know. Okay,
So I had to go on a internet search to
look at etymology and things of words because it's just
really good a bug me. So it's funny because if
you do oxford oxford, just like a kit as small,
it's a young cat, it's a baby cat, that's it.
(16:04):
Or a stout free green and white moth, the caterpulart,
which resembles that a puss moth. Okay, so that's how
helpful at all. But march Wester comes in and she
is saying a young cat, also an immature, a young
individual of various other small animals. Okay, Miriam, thank you
(16:25):
for helping me get. Speaking of etymology, mad is a
march hare is a saying derived from the hair's behavior
during mating seasons. So both male and female hairs will
box each other as they try to secure a mate.
So males will box each other like jump up and
(16:48):
like you can actually see photos of these things where
they look like they're boxing like their boxers. Uh. And
males will fight each other to compete for a female,
and females will beat up males that they do not
want to mate with, sofa males like, hey baby, and
she's not having any of it. She will, she will
beat them up. Take him back the night, sister, I
(17:09):
love it. Yeah. So, in terms of like what you're
probably thinking of when you hear bunny or you think
about the Easter bunny or peter rabbit is rabbits and
not hairs. And there are many species of wild rabbit.
But we've also domesticated rabbits, so there are over thirty
species of rabbits in the world and hundreds of breeds
(17:31):
of domesticated rabbits, so there there's a lot of there's
a lot of buns. They're like quickly browsing through all
these photos. It feels like I have seen all these
versions of different bunnies, but it never connected to me
that they were different. I thought they were just like
personality different species, you know how like like one it's
(17:55):
one bunny comes out with really long hair because it's
really into as being style styling, and one just comes
out real chunky. Its mother was a beauty queen and
was she was ready, She was ready. I mean, a
lot of the different breeds of rabbits are from one species,
so you can compare it to breeds of dogs. So
(18:15):
like at Chihuahua versus a Great Dane, they come out there,
they're genetically different, but they are all the same species. Okay, yeah,
but we are going to talk more about bunnies and
how how the gosh dang bunnies work, including white their
own poop. When we get back from a very quick break,
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thank you, and we are back and it's my favorite
time of the day. It's time to talk about rabbit
digestive systems. Didn't I feel like I'm almost razzil school
bus and I'm ready to take a journey through the
rabbit digestive systems. Well, school closs inside the rabbit, I
(19:00):
believe you had a misfressolanick stunning. Let's get the magic
school bus inside of the rabbit's poop and get eaten
by the rabbit. Yeay, let's go. Arnold's like I knew
I should have stayed home today as he's embedded in
rabbit crap. Listen Arnold on that day. I agree with you. Look,
(19:25):
I love science, but I agree with Arnold that it's
weird to like go get small and go inside a
human body, and that there's probably a lot of things
that could go wrong there. Do we think that was
a hip of violation because it's a student's body, isn't
She is sick and she exposes all these children to
(19:45):
the sickness by going directly into the child as its parents.
You know, I would have some concerns out put out
of school and have a discussion. I can't really think
of a worse hip of violation. Was this included on
the field trip information slip? You know? Decided permission slip
for you to go on the field trip. Were these
details included? I don't think so. Yeah, No, I mean like,
(20:09):
there was an episode where she shrunk all the kids
down to go see salmon spawning, and they went inside
salmon eggs and a male salmon went and released sperm
all over them. That was a real episode. By goodness,
that's a little up too close and personal. Well what
did you do to in school today, Arnold? Well, fish
(20:32):
all over? It was foul, but it happened. It was
for science and scientifically, and now I go to therapy. Thanks.
Oh but yeah, let's let's go inside of a rabbit's
digestive system. So rabbits are herbivores and they eat grasses, weeds,
and other vegetation. Rarely would they eat something like a carrot,
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although they appreciate such a thing. So they do need
a real tough digestive system to be able to break
down cellulose. And so what this means is, you know,
sometimes they got to eat their own poop. So cows
and other ruminants will chew their cut they will regurgitate
(21:15):
partially digested fermented food to be re chewed and re
ingested to break down that tough grass. So rabbits are similar.
Rabbits are copro phases, which means they eat their own duties,
but it's a special duty. So they do poop out
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normal pellets. Those are those hard round poops you find
on your lawn, but they also poop out special cicco
tropes icco tropes or poop that is similar to cow
cut and that it is semi digested food that needs
to be redigested in order to extract all the nutrients.
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So yeah, it's wild and that they know to do that.
I feel like humans we need a lot of science
to be like, oh, you know what, I have to
re eat this dude fully and make sure I got
all the nutrients necessary. I mean, you gotta be Matt
damon levels of science and beyond Mars and be like,
I gotta turn my poop into potatoes and NASA necessary
(22:18):
for survival on this red planet. Um I am mr Okay,
okay is it? Because now I'm I'm thinking about my
puppy and she likes to eat grass. She loves those
grass and leaves, and so I'm constantly pulling on her
(22:40):
and being like, no, that's not I pay so much
money for you to eat actual food. Um, please don't
do this. But like my cousin was like, well, maybe
she has a stomach ache her that I guess told
her that dogs eat grass to like help himself, and
I was like, I don't is that true? Uh yeah?
Sometimes so by eating grass they can help like pass
(23:03):
things through their digestive system, so it kind of like
adds more fiber and it kind of supercharges the digestive system.
But sometimes it helps them vomit as well if they
need to. But I have a suspicion that sometimes dogs
just enjoy the flavor of grass, so it might not
necessarily be a medical issue. I'd say, like if there's
(23:24):
anything else going on wrong, like if if she's trying
to eat it in excess, or she's not eating irregular food,
or she has uh sort of irregular poops or or
diarrhea or anything, that might be something to look into.
But she might just destroy the flavor. That's I think
it's a flavor thing for her, for sure. We've had
our early digestive scare, which all puppy owners help me
(23:46):
is an essential part of having puppy um is early
especially because she's a pit mix and so they have
all kinds of crazy digestive issues. I've derailed our show
from talking about. But but but she does like, yeah,
so animals are will to me. Um, because I feel
like I have to read Google to tell me if
anything's going on. I'm like, that's kind of weird. What
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does Google say about what's happening to my body? And
for animals to just be like, no, I just gotta
eat that poop again. I won't eat this poop, but
I will eat that poop the special poop magical. Yeah, yeah,
that's one way to describe poop eating. Uh. So other
cool rabbit adaptations that keep them alive is how fast
(24:30):
they are. So this is definitely a true thing. The
stereotype is true. These rabbits do get very fast. So
rabbits and hairs are built for speed with huge back
legs and feet, So brown hairs can reach speeds up
to fifty miles per hour or eighty kilometers an hour.
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This is about as fast as a lion and faster
than a greyhound or a tiger. So so they are
very hard to catch. So street legal, Yeah, just doing donuts,
doing donuts and like an old pet Boys parking lot. Yeah,
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they can also jump very big, big jumps. So that's
if you think rabbits can jump big, that's true. Actually,
jack rabbits are real good at this. They can jump
over nine ft or three meters in a single bound,
and the record for a jack rabbits jump is about
twenty feet or six meters, which is animal Olympics. I
(25:39):
just don't know, Like, I feel like this jack rabbit
might have juiced. You know, they tested that's gotta be
what like six times they're body Yeah, I think did
they test this jack rabbit for juice for putting the
juice in? You know? But I'm in the rabbit doping scandal. Uh.
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And hearing. They have those large years and they do
help them here. So these large ears allow them to
funnel in sound from far away, and they can move
their ears independently to be able to zero in on sounds,
and they can reposition them while they are flinging so
that they can be more aerodynamics. So if you have
(26:26):
big ears, a problem would be like, hey, if I
gotta run, you know, these years are gonna be like
spoilers are going to get in the They're gonna slow
down they're going to create drags, so they can fold
those down over their heads so that as they are
running they are still aero dynamic. Um and Joel, you
had an extremely intelligent thought about rabbit ears, which is that, uh,
(26:51):
that maybe they do something else other than hearing. They
do keep them cool. Yes, exactly, so for helping with
thermal regulations. So hairs, those big old ears often live
in hot climates and they use their giant ears as
air conditioners in the extreme heat of the desert. And
it's for the exact it's the exact mechanism that you guessed, Joel,
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which is that they have a large surface area a
lot of these branching veins, and it helps cool down
their blood. Meanwhile, rabbits and colder regions have to rely
on smaller ears so because they don't want to lose
body heat. Even if a bigger ear might be able
to hear better, they have to optimize for the smallest
(27:36):
ear possible to still hear predators while not losing too
much body heat. And yeah, they're hearing is excellent. They
can hear a much wider range of sounds than humans. Uh,
they can hear many more high frequency sounds. Than we can.
So while we can actually hear some lower frequency sounds
that that rabbits can't hear, uh, they're still picking up
(27:58):
a greater total of frequencies than us because they have
so many more high frequency sounds that they can hear,
and they have a three hundred and sixty degree range
of vision due to the position of their eyes on
either side of their head, So you can typically tell
a prey species from a predator species just based on
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the location of their eyes. So if an animal has
eyes on the side of its head, uh, that is
usually a sign that they are prey species because they
are optimized for a wide angle view to detect any
threat coming towards them, whereas front facing eyes can help
you see with greater precision and depth perception, but with
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a narrower field of view, which is helpful when you
are hunting, but less helpful when you're trying to avoid
being snuck up upon by predators. And so a rabbit's
main strategy for escaping predation is running away speed. Sometimes
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they'll freeze if they don't think they've been detected yet,
so that they can just kind of, you know, like
the kids in Jurassic Park. Just try to stay still.
Rabbits who are social and live in warrens will often
warn each other of danger, so they will use their
big back legs to thump the ground, which sends out Yeah,
thumper exactly sends out a powerful vibration and resonant sound
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that will warn the other bunnies that they gotta get
back in the warren and hide. But if all else fails,
they will fight back. They are not pacifists. So yes,
this is what I've been waiting for. How do rabbits
enter the arena music? What is their weapon of choice? They? Well,
(29:48):
they fill a sock full of bricks. Now. They have uh,
powerful back legs that, while they are mainly for running away,
they can deliver quite a kick. And they do have claws.
So being able to do a really powerful kick and
having long clause means they can actually do some good damage.
(30:09):
They can they can mess up a predator if you
have a cat. Uh sometimes a rabbit can really hurt
a cat with these claws. So they also have long,
powerful teeth which typically are used to tear through tough vegetation,
but they will also eagerly use these in a fight
for their lives. So they will do whatever they can
(30:32):
to avoid becoming dinner. Uh. And yeah, I mean that
they are not as cute as they are. They're certainly
not help helpless prey animals, and they are tasty, So
it's good that they have some defenses because otherwise that's
how you end up stew well. As bugs Bunny knows, yeah,
you think you're taking a hot bath, but then they
(30:53):
start adding in carrots and you're like, wait a minute,
I'm the soup that always freaked me out as a
kid when bugs Bunny was in a boiling pot. And
he's like, oh, what smells so good? Oh yeah, it's
me my boiling flesh. Oh no, I'm a cannibal. Whoops.
Despite all of their amazing adaptations, most wild rabbits have
(31:14):
a fast and tough life, living on average only about
a year in the wild. Yeah. This is due to
predation and rough conditions. They can live longer, but yeah,
on average. Uh, there is a pretty high mortality rate.
Domesticated rabbits, on the other hand, can live to be
around ten years, with the oldest domesticated European rabbit living
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eighteen years. Whoa. Okay, we have to pause and say
our humans people of doing one good thing for animals. Amazing.
I mean, it is incredible to me that like, by
being domesticated, they live longer, some mazing healthier, happier lives.
That's awesome. Yeah, I mean they not at all rabbit
(32:00):
should enter domestication, right, But it's interesting because I think
it's it's not necessarily just genetics. I think it's because
they are cared for, so being in captivity and having
the risks of predation and the their environments such that
they have access to food like that definitely increases their lifespans.
(32:20):
So that's good news for people who have a rabbit
as a pet, bad news for people who impulsively bought
a rabbit as a pet. Now you have, uh, something
that can live up to eighteen years, so again, research
research pets before you get them. Also that that means
so the rabbit can smoke, right, No, no, no wait,
no no no, no that's not right. Yeah, it's not
(32:42):
drinking either. No no you can't. No no, you don't
want a rabbit with cerrosis. That's just sad, right, But
the rabbits could sign up for the military, they can
write at eighteen years old, they can vote, so you know,
goodtriotic bunny eggs. Actly, yeah, probably only get one election
in though it's a rap make their boat. So now
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we're going to talk about some incredible bunny species and breeds.
We are just they. I love bunnies. They're so cute.
They're so interesting too. So this is a rabbit that
we've actually talked about on the show before, but I
cannot do a rabbit episode without mentioning. This is the
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Mommy rabbit. It is the most ancient species of rabbit
in the world. It is endangered and found only on
two small Japanese islands, ami amani Oshima and toku Noshima.
So they are black, and they look like kind of
like an almost rabbit like if you imagine, like what
(33:57):
would a prehistoric rabbit look like? I think is kind
of fit the bill. They have shorter ears and less
pronounced hind legs, but they're definitely starting to get that
classic rabbit shape. It looks like a miniature kangaroo. I'm
not gonna lie. It was like it's got like a
very very round body like. Yes, the legs and back
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are larger, little hands. Oh my god, it does look
more supial like, and I think What's interesting about that
is that marsupials diverged from other mammals really early on,
and so this being a really ancient species of rabbit,
it has that kind of marsupial look which it shares
(34:39):
with other really old species of animals. And yeah, that
that is a really interesting observation. It's nifty looking. So
now let's talk about the biggest bunny in the world.
The biggest bunny. Who's the biggest bunny? So the largest
rabbit in the world is actually a domesticated species. It
is the Flemish giant rabbit. Oh my god, I want
(35:02):
to snuggle it. I want to boot that snoop. I
want to boot the snoot. It's a big snoot to boot.
So it is a breed of domesticated European rabbit and
they weigh around fifteen pounds, which is almost seven kilograms,
but record holders can weigh over twenty pounds or tens.
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The longest rabbit ever recorded is a Flemish rabbit and
it reaches over four ft long or one point three
meters from the tip of their little boopable snoot to
the back of their legs. Is a big bunny? Is
that big bunny you oh my god. But also the
fairy is luxurious, like if you seem like mink or
(35:49):
like a chinchilla before it's giving me those vibes, be
oh god, I bet it's so just great to pay.
Oh my god. They're also very apparently quite docile in
terms of pet rabbits, so they tolerate being held pretty well.
If you can lift the ding thing. Look at that chunkster.
(36:10):
Oh okay. So obviously more research is required, but I
am definitely looking into the fumage giant rabbit. What a
baby if you have the budget for a billion carras well.
Now let's talk about the smallest buns in the world.
Wat baby buns. So this smallest bunny in the world
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is a wild species called the pygmy rabbit found in
North America. On average, they weigh just under a pound,
so dred grams. They have a maximum body length under
a foot around twenties four centameters. And when I'm talking
about body length, I mean like if you stretch out
(36:54):
the bunny like you hold hold the bunny under the belling,
you know, eat the bunnies all kind of like stretched
out um from like the tip of their nose to
to their butt area. That's how long they get. But
if they're once, when they're in that kind of classic
like little bunny sitting position, you can just if you
hold out both your hands and cut them, you could
PLoP that rabbit right in there like a little scooba
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ice cream you. The smallest domesticated rabbit is the another
Land dwarf rabbit, and it's just hair bigger than the
pygmy rabbit. Pun intended. I'm I'm a mean person. Um.
It is a teeny tiny little thing with short ears
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and round bodies. They could not survive in the wild. No.
Just looking at it, I'm like, you need humans to
help you because otherwise death. Oh. Like the it's the
pug of like the rabbit world. It is this little, tiny,
squishy baby. My heart is melting looking at although the
(37:59):
I'm not it's all white with like a red and
yellow eye. I'm not gonna lie. That one looks kind
of demonic. But then there's this other one that's really
fluffy grained cheek ease, Oh my god, yeah, they're both.
Those are both the Netherland dwarf rabbits. Just one is
a all white coat and the other one is a
longer haired gray coat and yeah, very cute. I wanna
(38:21):
wanna kiss kiss his little nose. Uh. And so they
have very short, petite ears, but the biggest ears get
quite big. So oh my god, oh my god. So
the domesticated species called or domesticated breed called the English
lop has the biggest ears, and a record holder has
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ears over thirty or seventy nine centimeters long. So I
feel like if you put this rabbit and like a cartoonish,
you know, sling, and then like try to launch it,
I think you'd get a bit of air. Okay, you
know that song? Do your ears saying low? Do they broke?
(39:05):
Can you tie him in a boat? This? He can
tie his in a boat? Okay. They must trip over
them and they trag on the floor. What did we
do this to them? Did we breathe them? Because I
thought it was adorable? We are monsters, were also this.
This is how I feel about pure bred dogs as well.
(39:26):
It's like a cute, but we're also monsters. They're horrible.
But oh my god, you can't even see one of
these bunnies for all of their ears and see a
little nose and then just its ears draped around it.
That's the record holder. I'm sure the care that you
have to do for those ears is just intense. Yeah,
(39:48):
you know. And it's not like you can tie them.
It's not like you have long hair, like I'll just
tie these back for the day because that's got to
be painful. And they're a little joint things. Oh no,
but in a a towel. Time up in a towel. Now, yeah,
you got you got a rich luxury people brand of bunny.
They have like a servant for their bunnies ear specifically,
(40:11):
a special caretaker deals with this ling. The bunny butler,
the bun butler. The longest fur is, of course, anga rabbits.
They are ridiculous poofball. The record holder is a bunny,
an Ingora rabbit who has for over a foot long
(40:33):
or thirty six centimeters long. Just looks like a star
Trek triple. This thing, yes it does. It looks exactly
like a star Trek triple. I want to blue dry
its hair. I want to put it in a Pantine
pro v commercial to get out, bounce it around like,
oh my god, It's face just becomes subsumed by the fur,
(40:58):
like I can't even see the bunny face barely because
it's just getting It's just it's just all fluff. And
I actually got this really lovely listener email about Angora
bunnies that I would like to share with you from
someone who owns Angora bunnies. Um so this is from Kayla,
(41:20):
who writes to me, I got to share some bunny
facts with you. This is my two year old satin
and gore rabbit. She is my emotional support animal and
has superpowers in her wool. When I first got her,
I consumed so many bun facts that I thought you
might enjoy. I've included pictures of her post sharing and
(41:41):
just loafing around buns love loafing and Joel. I have
show shared with you the picture of this incredible bun
with the incredible buns. Like the little bunny tushy just
a poof. I really like it's a little fishy. It's
so big. I it has them is a perfect name
because it's like in uh brunette redhead sort of vibes
(42:08):
going on gorgeous, your very gorgeous. Yes, you have a
beautiful bunny. You have a beautiful bun. And I don't
mean that in a weird way. But Kayla wrote a
bunch of bunny facts that I do want to share
with you guys because I think these are really fascinating.
So Kayla writes, rabbit wool is the strongest and warmest
wool available. It is arguably the softest and a little
(42:32):
goes a long way in keeping you warm. Amazing, and
oh with Ngora like they don't. This is my note.
I'm saying this, like with Ingora's sweaters and stuff. They
they share the rabbit like they do with um sheep.
So it's not it's not rabbit skin, it's just the
wool that makes me feel better. Yes, the best. And
then Kayla writes, the best way to share a bun
(42:55):
is not to trim, which I did, gosh it was hard,
but to brush and pluck during one of their four
sheddings per year. Plucking does not hurt the bun when
the fur is already detached. It just helps them get
that wool off of their new coat. So that's interesting.
So you're just kind of brushing them out and you're
getting wool by petting them. I love that. It's it's
(43:18):
like soothing for you helps the bunduct afterwards love that trifecta.
I think that's the truth. That's also the case for
the case for yaks. Maybe I think with like a
yak hair uh or some I think might be thinking
of some other big hooved, fuzzy animal, But I think
with yak hair, you you have to collect it by
(43:41):
just brushing them. You don't share them or anything. You
go um or like they leave clumps behind because they're shedding,
and you go and collect the clumps. Uh. Yeah, I
guess these angora rabbits do shed quite well, which I
guess if you're gonna own one, you better be prepared. Listen,
you're just buster ready. I've got special pet vacuums, a
(44:02):
literal godsend. They just get all of it up and
they're not going to die on you, which is what
you need. I really wish. I man, it just sounds
very therapy to be like, I'm just gonna brush my
animal for a little bit and a sweater, right, and
then we'll just spin that wool up and make a
little sweater, and my life is peaceful and everything that
(44:24):
I own gives back to me in other ways. I
just want to go to a bunny farm now. I
live on a self sustaining farm. Everything breeds new things,
go on a bun farm and then make little sweaters
and then put the sweaters on other bunnies. Yes, so
Kayla also continues, some angoras can spend their shedding wool
(44:47):
right off of them. There's YouTube videos showing off this
cool technique. What bunnies even enjoys settling down or napping
while being plucked or spun because you're doing them a
huge favor. So I imagine when she said, say, like
talks about plucking your you're very gently like pulling on
the first of the loose stuff comes out, and so
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they can like spin it right off the rabbit, and
they're jill about it because it's like you're, oh, man,
I know it's been so long in pandemic, but once
once we all get our vaccines and get out of here,
like going to the hair salon and having them walk
brush your hair and wash your hair, I miss it.
I love it, uh it I have. I've been really
(45:30):
really good about my quarantine, like I can't mess around
and a lot of different blots in my body. But
the way I miss my salon and my stylist was
emailing her and I was like, so, talk to me
again about procedure. How are you doing hair? How can
I be there and get this color correct? Because you know,
a year and a half is that my color is
(45:52):
now on my ends. Everything else is my natural color.
I have to re emerge into society. I can't wait.
These bunnies, I'm envious. Kayle also writes that angoras must
be brush regardless of care style, otherwise the buns can
get wool blocks in their tummies. Oh no, bunnies can't
vomit or process these blockages. They can enter g I
(46:14):
stasis and this is apparently lethal. So yeah, you got.
If you get angora, you gotta brush your bun. You
gotta brush your bun. Make sure you take care of
your rabbits, your little bunnies. But I really, oh man,
oh man, do I wish I had to like just
brush your bunny as this is part of its care.
(46:36):
This isn't even fushun. Yeah no, this is a medical procedure.
I'm a doctor, I'm a bunny doctor, and I'm brushing
this bunny. You don't even know. He could face life
threatening things if I do not brush him. This bunny
needs twenty c ss of brushes stack. Hayle also writes
that bunnies purr when content are happy. They softly grind
(46:56):
their teeth, making a little purring noise. Very cute. They
also honk, but they that's usually during courtship. Wow, horny
honk and bunnies uh, grinding their little teeth together when
they're when they're purring. Amazing. I thought we had reached
peak cuteness, and then I learned the bunnies pur and
now I live in a new age. It's a new day. Yeah,
(47:17):
and so Kyles says, those were some fun, fun facts.
They're really cool to learn about. I hope you enjoy
my baby Ember. She has a red coat, so she's
extra special since that's a rare coloration. Thank you, Kaylea
so much for your email. I also agree having red
hair is very special and great. I am Kayla, thank you.
(47:40):
Thank you really improved my life with these facts. Imber
is a diva. She's beautiful. She is gorgeous. I love
the man, but though glorious a little puffy bunny. But well,
I think we've done it. I think we have explored
(48:01):
the world of bunnies, just in time for the bunny season.
Um and yeah, did you enjoy a trip down Cottontail Lane?
Or wait what here comes Peter Cottontail? Yeah for the
rabbit hippy easters on its way? Do do eaten all
(48:22):
his poopy poops? I wasn't prepared? I did. I did
have a lot of fun. Um. I love rabbits. My
favorite book coming up was Peter Cottontail. I read it
a lot. Beatrice knew what she was doing with her
cute littleted a legend. She was aware, she was a legendary. Amazing,
(48:47):
her illustrations amazing, so pretty. I'm going to try to
resist adopting a bunny as I think my pi. Would
you know, think food? No't what that would be the
worst thing ever. Oh no, now I'm sad again. Well,
(49:07):
thank you so much for joining me today. Where can
the people find you? Oh man, thank you for having
me back, Katie. I missed doing the show and learning
all of the adorable animal facts. Um, my name is
Joel Monique. You can find me all over the internet
at Joel Monique. That's j O E l o E
m O win I q e um. I'm over at
fake Doctor's real friends were still in down production a bit.
(49:29):
There's the guys head back to work. We're still having
a lot of fun recapping every episode of Scrubs ever. Um,
Yes and undertaking. And I have a new podcast coming
out in May. It is a Star Wars podcast. It's
called The Black Side. It's being Donald talking Star Wars
once a week where we break down a classic movie.
(49:51):
Maybe we're look at some of the TV shows, reading
some of the comics of the books, like interviews with
the authors. It's a good time. Un check us out
on Maybe they're bunnies in Star Wars. You know, I
can't tell you that right now. Listen, there are very
cute animals in Star Wars. And after this, uh, a
(50:12):
little interview here, I'll give you some inside Star War school.
The other day, I'm getting juicy inside details that you
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Do Do Do Do Woo do doo do doo do
Welcome to Creature Future production of I Heart Radio. I'm
your host of Many Parasites, Katie Golden. I studied psychology
and evolutionary biology, and today on the show Bunnies, Buns, Buns, Buns,
spun spun spunspun spuns, We're talking all things lago morphs,
from hairs to rabbits to domesticated bunnies. We'll learn that
(00:28):
rabbits don't like colorful eggs. What they do eat their
own poop. Discover this more as we answer the ansual question,
but a rabbit fly on those ears with enough thrust.
Joining me today is close friend of the pod, producer
at I Heeart radio, writer for a V Club and fulture,
producer of Fake Doctor's Real Friends, and my buddy Joel Monique. Hi,
(00:51):
how are you good? It's so good to have you back.
I'm so glad to be back, especially talking about the
most adorable features on God's Earth. I level bun buns
and the bunnies. Yes, yes, we got we got the bunnies.
We got so many bunnies. I got a lot of
(01:12):
requests to do bunny sd um follow. Your audience has
always been great, and clearly their excellence hasn't slowed down
in my absence. They have very good taste in terms
of episodes. And uh, I'll just read a couple of
the emails I got asking for bunny. So this was
from Max who got a bunny rabbit called Dr SEUs,
(01:36):
And uh, Max writes for such a quiet animal, they
have their own unique language of communication. Thumps, bump, bumping, feet, flicks, nudging, flopping.
There's so many ways, my bunny, this is me in
rabbit language every day. It might also be a good
place to plug that rabbits aren't the easy beginner pets
that they are often sold as in pet stores. The
(01:56):
shelter volunteer with is overrun with bunnies that how been abandoned.
I feel like people often think bunnies are cute but
don't realize the depth of care that they require. And
that's from Max. Thank you, Max. Yeah, that's I think
that's a really good thing to note. Bunnies require a
lot of space and exercise, and they have lots of needs.
I mean, heck, they are built for running around. Uh.
(02:20):
They're not just a cute little table sort of setting
that you put in a basket for Easter. It's not
a hamster. Y'all. Okay, they are not they're not. They're
not made out of chocolate, so don't even try that. Um,
do not bite your bunnies. Foot is lucky, but only
(02:40):
while it's attached to the bunny. Yes, yes, exactly, yes.
So I mean I think rabbits can make good pets,
but like all pets, they require a lot of care
and they are a commitment. Domesticated rabbits can live around
ten years if even if not longer. So yeah, if
you want to get a on your rabbit, do your
(03:01):
research first because they require lots of care, lots of attention,
and they're different from cats and dogs. They require different things,
Like you're not going to be able to well maybe
some people can get their rabbit to use a litter box,
but in general, no, they're not going to do that.
So what magician is training their rabbit use a litter box?
That seems oh man, that's like cats that use the toilet.
(03:24):
That's the next level dog or next level animal training. Yeah,
I think I don't know, like how reliable the litter
box training would be for a bunny rabbit. I feel
like that would be if the rabbit feels like it uh.
And this is from Jessica, who writes, I think it's
about time you gave some lagomorph love and cleared up
(03:46):
the nasty rumor that rabbits are rodents, even though I
love plus pikas. So yes, let's talk about rabbits, let's
talk about lago morphs, and let's talk about pikas. So
even know what a pika is, it's what a pikachu says,
Pika pika. Oh my god, now I'm kidding U. So, yeah,
(04:08):
what is a bunny? You know? It seems like a
simple enough question, but it's got pretty long answer. So rabbits,
hairs and jack rabbits are all lago morphs, which are
a distinct order of animals, separate from rodents. So no,
they are not rodents. Are they cousins of transmorphers, of
(04:31):
of animals or of animals? Listening all all of the
morphing abilitied animals do laga morphs? Chair characteristics? Mighty morphine
rabbit rangers show ten thousand lot all the cuteness of bunnies.
(04:53):
A bunny forming like a mega bunny that shoots missiles. Yeah, no,
I'm into it. Imagine if bunnies could missiles. Nobody's they're
gonna be defenders of the innocent. That would be Oh yeah.
So picas are actually the other members of Laga morpha.
(05:13):
So they are found in rocky mountainous regions in North
America and Asia. And they don't really look too much
like rabbits. They look like an adorable cross between a
rabbit and a mouse. Their ears are short and round,
and they grow to be just about over a half
a foot in length, about fifteen to twenty centimeters, and
(05:34):
they're very noisy with these loud, little squeaking calls. So yeah,
they they when you look at when it would be
hard to really guess that they would be related to
a bunny, looks more like an overgrown mouse. Yes, but
like all of these characteristics of a mouse that I
find scary not present here. Like, yes, obviously they look
(05:56):
like but their whiskers are like double the size of
their face. Itch. First of all, just make instantly more adorable. Okay. Uh.
The ears are so like maybe half the size of
their heads. So I think like Mickey mout you know,
like he has like a characteris each you have a
mouth with the big ears. This mouse is an actual
living Mickey Mouse is a pike, that is what I'm saying. Yeah,
(06:17):
since what Mickey Mouse wishes he was. Truly, he's so
in the furs like longer. I can't see a tail
in this, so I'm not sure what we're dealing. Are
we dealing with long roaded tail? Yeah, they have like
pretty smooth butt, so I don't think they have much
of It's sort of more like a hamster situation. I'm
pretty in the running for hugest animal on the planet. Um.
(06:40):
Other animals are really gonna need to bring their game.
Oh when they carry little foods in their mouth, a
little flowers, yeah, it's so cute. They like to use
vegetation to line their burrows, so sometimes they're carrying flowers
around and they will use that to help line their
burrow or or to eat, and it's very cute. Well,
the natural next question is are they domesticated? Could you
(07:03):
bring one into your home and they love it as
a pet companion? I don't think so. No, I know,
I'm sorry. I mean, you know, if there if you
want something like a domesticated pike, I guess a gerbil
would be the closest thing. They're not. They're not all
that look similar. That's true. I've owned many a druble
(07:26):
and I loved them, and they are great pets. This
is not derbl slander. I'm just saying, not anti Gerbil.
The pika is future, that's true. It's chair. I can't
deny it. Oh my gosh. There's a book called American
Pike as Little Cheap Hairs of the West, Dr John.
I don't know if it's any good, but the cover adorable.
And if there's a picture book of just these like
(07:47):
great little hairs from the West, I have to look
to see if I need to purchase it. I mean
now I want. It's sort of like five Al goes
West and get rid of that mouse, repair pike, get
him out of here. Minus are over camps, reclassified Mickey
as the pike he's always been and move for Oh
(08:10):
my word, okay, I could go down that Google rabbit
hole forever. So that is those are indeed part of
the Lagomorpha order. And in terms of what we think
of as bunnies and rabbits, there are rabbits hairs and
(08:33):
jack rabbits, and these are in the family lapoora day,
so they all share similar features. They have big hind
legs and long ears the classic rabbit shape. So the
difference between rabbits versus hairs and jack rabbits is really interesting.
So hairs and jack rabbits tend to be a bit
(08:56):
larger and leaner, with much bigger ears and are Also
they have different behaviors, so they're more solitary. Rabbits will
often live in social groups. They live in warrens, which
are these groups of burrows, whereas hairs typically live in
pairs or on their own. In fact, with rabbits, the
(09:19):
social life of rabbits can be really extravagant. So larger
rabbit warrens, such as European rabbit warrens, can house around
twenty individuals with multiple entrances. You've ever read Bunny Apartment Complex, Yes, exactly,
if you've ever read Watership Down. First of all, I'm sorry,
(09:40):
and secondly you know what I'm talking about. Yeah that listen.
If you're into the bunnies and you love them, don't
watch Watership Down. Okay, it'll traiti you. Absolutely. This new one,
this for the children, the new fingled one. Uh. It
tells the same story, but it's like toned down. The
(10:00):
graphic nature like eight. Is that the Yes, yeah, it's fine,
it's good. It's probably better that you watch that one
appared to the one from the seventies. It's just a
blood bath. It was a blood bath of chaos and horror.
I watched that movie as an adult. I discovered waters
Down at like six and was emotionally scarred. I was like,
(10:21):
who did this? I can't imagine having seen it for
the first time as a child. I read the books
as a kid, and yeah, they were bad. I mean
they were excellent books, very very literature, very good books.
Very sad about the bunnies though, and all the horrible
things they go through. Yeah, it's it's tough. I will say.
(10:43):
These jack rabbits, though, I feel like I don't see
I feel like we, as our media, has not done
enough for them as we have done for the stereotypical
rabbits that we are more familiar with. Because, first of all,
these ears are iconic. I imagine it's because they cool down,
(11:04):
cool them down. They're like very thin, lots of veins
running through them, exactly very good guests, their statuesque. They're tall,
big beautiful eyes, and I feel like, you know, a
warrior spirit coming from this animal, like it could f
it's prey. Up. No, I agree. I love hairs. I
(11:26):
mean rabbits are very cute, love them. But there's something
mystical about a hair, like it looks like it has
seen into the universe and it has infinite wisdom, and
it's also like a warrior. It's really they're very cool
looking animals, like like badass. Yeah. Yeah, like I decided
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to combine. I would say it's like an owl meets
an elephant in a smaller body, Like you give all
the wisdom of both the owl and the elephants, but
also you know, all the ferociousness of the owls. Owls
are all talents and claws and elephants you know, despite
that that they're like impacts. You know that you can't
mess with an elephant's crew. Yeah, jack rabbit is very impressive. Yeah. Yeah,
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they they look like they can tell the future and
also kick your butt. And so there are there are
differences in terms of their development between these hairs and
the rabbits. So baby rabbits are actually born blind and helpless,
and they tend to be born Yeah, they're the little pink,
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little jelly bean, you know, just like like a kitten
or a puppy when they're born and they're just a
little pink tube of cuteness like that, that's a baby bunny.
Like newborn baby rabbits are pink, furless, blind, helpless, and
that that's why it also helps, like they have these
social structures, the burrows and the larger warrens, and that
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helps out with babies that are born more defenseless because
they're born in h a sort of protected area, whereas
baby hairs are born already able to see, they already
have fur, and they're already able to fit for themselves.
And they're typically born in a nest of grass above
ground rather than in a burrow. First of all, a
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newborn hair Okay, I obviously I'm gonna be calling everything cute,
but like as cute as the pike is, it's got
fur you can brush in. His ears are so like
many but big fruit's body even still tiny in his
little beady eyes. Oh my goodn't want a pet one
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I shouldn't, but I want to. They are adorable. They fit,
you know, in the palm of your hand. They just
look like little kutius And I like the you know
when like a baby kitten or puppy or baby rabbit
is born in the little pink, a little weird pink
weirdos that they are. I like that, but it is
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like astonishing when a baby is born like a baby
animal and they just already have they're little fluffy fur
and they look just kind of like a miniaturized version
of the adults. It's really cute. Um. The baby hairs
are called leveretts, and the baby rabbits are called kittens. Okay,
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that's weird science. What are we doing? Why Why are
baby rabbits called kittens? I don't understand. Yeah, they I
don't know that. They call a lot of a lot
of baby mammals are called kittens, baby foxes, baby cats,
baby bunnies. I'm getting guests, Probably a lot of other
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baby animals are also called kittens. Um, but yeah, they
aren't just baby cats. You can also call baby rabbits kits. Yeah,
I've got I've heard of kids before, which I suppose
I should have just connected that kids is short for
kittens and babe kitten just at one point in the
baby's tiny baby things. Sometimes guys in the old days
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ladies kitten. So I don't know, I'm trying to put
working together here. I'm trying to make the mathwork for me.
It's so weird to call a little baby bunny at
kitten if you ask me, they're also the males are
called bucks and the females are called does, just like deer.
So a little confusing too, because then you think, well,
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wouldn't you call the baby's fawns? But no, then they're
called leveretts or kittens. So yeah, who knows what was
going on when people were naming these things. I just
think of old timey scientists who were around the time
when we still had a chance to name stuff, is
just constantly drunk on meat or out of their minds,
just eating everything they discover and just like, yes, we'll
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call this one a hair because it has hair, you know. Okay,
So I had to go on a internet search to
look at etymology and things of words because it's just
really good a bug me. So it's funny because if
you do oxford oxford, just like a kit as small,
it's a young cat, it's a baby cat, that's it.
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Or a stout free green and white moth, the caterpulart,
which resembles that a puss moth. Okay, so that's how
helpful at all. But march Wester comes in and she
is saying a young cat, also an immature, a young
individual of various other small animals. Okay, Miriam, thank you
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for helping me get. Speaking of etymology, mad is a
march hare is a saying derived from the hair's behavior
during mating seasons. So both male and female hairs will
box each other as they try to secure a mate.
So males will box each other like jump up and
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like you can actually see photos of these things where
they look like they're boxing like their boxers. Uh. And
males will fight each other to compete for a female,
and females will beat up males that they do not
want to mate with, sofa males like, hey baby, and
she's not having any of it. She will, she will
beat them up. Take him back the night, sister, I
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love it. Yeah. So, in terms of like what you're
probably thinking of when you hear bunny or you think
about the Easter bunny or peter rabbit is rabbits and
not hairs. And there are many species of wild rabbit.
But we've also domesticated rabbits, so there are over thirty
species of rabbits in the world and hundreds of breeds
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of domesticated rabbits, so there there's a lot of there's
a lot of buns. They're like quickly browsing through all
these photos. It feels like I have seen all these
versions of different bunnies, but it never connected to me
that they were different. I thought they were just like
personality different species, you know how like like one it's
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one bunny comes out with really long hair because it's
really into as being style styling, and one just comes
out real chunky. Its mother was a beauty queen and
was she was ready, She was ready. I mean, a
lot of the different breeds of rabbits are from one species,
so you can compare it to breeds of dogs. So
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like at Chihuahua versus a Great Dane, they come out there,
they're genetically different, but they are all the same species. Okay, yeah,
but we are going to talk more about bunnies and
how how the gosh dang bunnies work, including white their
own poop. When we get back from a very quick break,
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thank you, and we are back and it's my favorite
time of the day. It's time to talk about rabbit
digestive systems. Didn't I feel like I'm almost razzil school
bus and I'm ready to take a journey through the
rabbit digestive systems. Well, school closs inside the rabbit, I
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believe you had a misfressolanick stunning. Let's get the magic
school bus inside of the rabbit's poop and get eaten
by the rabbit. Yeay, let's go. Arnold's like I knew
I should have stayed home today as he's embedded in
rabbit crap. Listen Arnold on that day. I agree with you. Look,
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I love science, but I agree with Arnold that it's
weird to like go get small and go inside a
human body, and that there's probably a lot of things
that could go wrong there. Do we think that was
a hip of violation because it's a student's body, isn't
She is sick and she exposes all these children to
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the sickness by going directly into the child as its parents.
You know, I would have some concerns out put out
of school and have a discussion. I can't really think
of a worse hip of violation. Was this included on
the field trip information slip? You know? Decided permission slip
for you to go on the field trip. Were these
details included? I don't think so. Yeah, No, I mean like,
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there was an episode where she shrunk all the kids
down to go see salmon spawning, and they went inside
salmon eggs and a male salmon went and released sperm
all over them. That was a real episode. By goodness,
that's a little up too close and personal. Well what
did you do to in school today, Arnold? Well, fish
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all over? It was foul, but it happened. It was
for science and scientifically, and now I go to therapy. Thanks.
Oh but yeah, let's let's go inside of a rabbit's
digestive system. So rabbits are herbivores and they eat grasses, weeds,
and other vegetation. Rarely would they eat something like a carrot,
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although they appreciate such a thing. So they do need
a real tough digestive system to be able to break
down cellulose. And so what this means is, you know,
sometimes they got to eat their own poop. So cows
and other ruminants will chew their cut they will regurgitate
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partially digested fermented food to be re chewed and re
ingested to break down that tough grass. So rabbits are similar.
Rabbits are copro phases, which means they eat their own duties,
but it's a special duty. So they do poop out
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normal pellets. Those are those hard round poops you find
on your lawn, but they also poop out special cicco
tropes icco tropes or poop that is similar to cow
cut and that it is semi digested food that needs
to be redigested in order to extract all the nutrients.
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So yeah, it's wild and that they know to do that.
I feel like humans we need a lot of science
to be like, oh, you know what, I have to
re eat this dude fully and make sure I got
all the nutrients necessary. I mean, you gotta be Matt
damon levels of science and beyond Mars and be like,
I gotta turn my poop into potatoes and NASA necessary
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for survival on this red planet. Um I am mr Okay,
okay is it? Because now I'm I'm thinking about my
puppy and she likes to eat grass. She loves those
grass and leaves, and so I'm constantly pulling on her
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and being like, no, that's not I pay so much
money for you to eat actual food. Um, please don't
do this. But like my cousin was like, well, maybe
she has a stomach ache her that I guess told
her that dogs eat grass to like help himself, and
I was like, I don't is that true? Uh yeah?
Sometimes so by eating grass they can help like pass
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things through their digestive system, so it kind of like
adds more fiber and it kind of supercharges the digestive system.
But sometimes it helps them vomit as well if they
need to. But I have a suspicion that sometimes dogs
just enjoy the flavor of grass, so it might not
necessarily be a medical issue. I'd say, like if there's
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anything else going on wrong, like if if she's trying
to eat it in excess, or she's not eating irregular food,
or she has uh sort of irregular poops or or
diarrhea or anything, that might be something to look into.
But she might just destroy the flavor. That's I think
it's a flavor thing for her, for sure. We've had
our early digestive scare, which all puppy owners help me
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is an essential part of having puppy um is early
especially because she's a pit mix and so they have
all kinds of crazy digestive issues. I've derailed our show
from talking about. But but but she does like, yeah,
so animals are will to me. Um, because I feel
like I have to read Google to tell me if
anything's going on. I'm like, that's kind of weird. What
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does Google say about what's happening to my body? And
for animals to just be like, no, I just gotta
eat that poop again. I won't eat this poop, but
I will eat that poop the special poop magical. Yeah, yeah,
that's one way to describe poop eating. Uh. So other
cool rabbit adaptations that keep them alive is how fast
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they are. So this is definitely a true thing. The
stereotype is true. These rabbits do get very fast. So
rabbits and hairs are built for speed with huge back
legs and feet, So brown hairs can reach speeds up
to fifty miles per hour or eighty kilometers an hour.
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This is about as fast as a lion and faster
than a greyhound or a tiger. So so they are
very hard to catch. So street legal, Yeah, just doing donuts,
doing donuts and like an old pet Boys parking lot. Yeah,
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they can also jump very big, big jumps. So that's
if you think rabbits can jump big, that's true. Actually,
jack rabbits are real good at this. They can jump
over nine ft or three meters in a single bound,
and the record for a jack rabbits jump is about
twenty feet or six meters, which is animal Olympics. I
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just don't know, Like, I feel like this jack rabbit
might have juiced. You know, they tested that's gotta be
what like six times they're body Yeah, I think did
they test this jack rabbit for juice for putting the
juice in? You know? But I'm in the rabbit doping scandal. Uh.
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And hearing. They have those large years and they do
help them here. So these large ears allow them to
funnel in sound from far away, and they can move
their ears independently to be able to zero in on sounds,
and they can reposition them while they are flinging so
that they can be more aerodynamics. So if you have
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big ears, a problem would be like, hey, if I
gotta run, you know, these years are gonna be like
spoilers are going to get in the They're gonna slow
down they're going to create drags, so they can fold
those down over their heads so that as they are
running they are still aero dynamic. Um and Joel, you
had an extremely intelligent thought about rabbit ears, which is that, uh,
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that maybe they do something else other than hearing. They
do keep them cool. Yes, exactly, so for helping with
thermal regulations. So hairs, those big old ears often live
in hot climates and they use their giant ears as
air conditioners in the extreme heat of the desert. And
it's for the exact it's the exact mechanism that you guessed, Joel,
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which is that they have a large surface area a
lot of these branching veins, and it helps cool down
their blood. Meanwhile, rabbits and colder regions have to rely
on smaller ears so because they don't want to lose
body heat. Even if a bigger ear might be able
to hear better, they have to optimize for the smallest
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ear possible to still hear predators while not losing too
much body heat. And yeah, they're hearing is excellent. They
can hear a much wider range of sounds than humans. Uh,
they can hear many more high frequency sounds. Than we can.
So while we can actually hear some lower frequency sounds
that that rabbits can't hear, uh, they're still picking up
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a greater total of frequencies than us because they have
so many more high frequency sounds that they can hear,
and they have a three hundred and sixty degree range
of vision due to the position of their eyes on
either side of their head, So you can typically tell
a prey species from a predator species just based on
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the location of their eyes. So if an animal has
eyes on the side of its head, uh, that is
usually a sign that they are prey species because they
are optimized for a wide angle view to detect any
threat coming towards them, whereas front facing eyes can help
you see with greater precision and depth perception, but with
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a narrower field of view, which is helpful when you
are hunting, but less helpful when you're trying to avoid
being snuck up upon by predators. And so a rabbit's
main strategy for escaping predation is running away speed. Sometimes
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they'll freeze if they don't think they've been detected yet,
so that they can just kind of, you know, like
the kids in Jurassic Park. Just try to stay still.
Rabbits who are social and live in warrens will often
warn each other of danger, so they will use their
big back legs to thump the ground, which sends out Yeah,
thumper exactly sends out a powerful vibration and resonant sound
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that will warn the other bunnies that they gotta get
back in the warren and hide. But if all else fails,
they will fight back. They are not pacifists. So yes,
this is what I've been waiting for. How do rabbits
enter the arena music? What is their weapon of choice? They? Well,
(29:48):
they fill a sock full of bricks. Now. They have uh,
powerful back legs that, while they are mainly for running away,
they can deliver quite a kick. And they do have claws.
So being able to do a really powerful kick and
having long clause means they can actually do some good damage.
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They can they can mess up a predator if you
have a cat. Uh sometimes a rabbit can really hurt
a cat with these claws. So they also have long,
powerful teeth which typically are used to tear through tough vegetation,
but they will also eagerly use these in a fight
for their lives. So they will do whatever they can
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to avoid becoming dinner. Uh. And yeah, I mean that
they are not as cute as they are. They're certainly
not help helpless prey animals, and they are tasty, So
it's good that they have some defenses because otherwise that's
how you end up stew well. As bugs Bunny knows, yeah,
you think you're taking a hot bath, but then they
(30:53):
start adding in carrots and you're like, wait a minute,
I'm the soup that always freaked me out as a
kid when bugs Bunny was in a boiling pot. And
he's like, oh, what smells so good? Oh yeah, it's
me my boiling flesh. Oh no, I'm a cannibal. Whoops.
Despite all of their amazing adaptations, most wild rabbits have
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a fast and tough life, living on average only about
a year in the wild. Yeah. This is due to
predation and rough conditions. They can live longer, but yeah,
on average. Uh, there is a pretty high mortality rate.
Domesticated rabbits, on the other hand, can live to be
around ten years, with the oldest domesticated European rabbit living
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eighteen years. Whoa. Okay, we have to pause and say
our humans people of doing one good thing for animals. Amazing.
I mean, it is incredible to me that like, by
being domesticated, they live longer, some mazing healthier, happier lives.
That's awesome. Yeah, I mean they not at all rabbit
(32:00):
should enter domestication, right, But it's interesting because I think
it's it's not necessarily just genetics. I think it's because
they are cared for, so being in captivity and having
the risks of predation and the their environments such that
they have access to food like that definitely increases their lifespans.
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So that's good news for people who have a rabbit
as a pet, bad news for people who impulsively bought
a rabbit as a pet. Now you have, uh, something
that can live up to eighteen years, so again, research
research pets before you get them. Also that that means
so the rabbit can smoke, right, No, no, no wait,
no no no, no that's not right. Yeah, it's not
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drinking either. No no you can't. No no, you don't
want a rabbit with cerrosis. That's just sad, right, But
the rabbits could sign up for the military, they can
write at eighteen years old, they can vote, so you know,
goodtriotic bunny eggs. Actly, yeah, probably only get one election
in though it's a rap make their boat. So now
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we're going to talk about some incredible bunny species and breeds.
We are just they. I love bunnies. They're so cute.
They're so interesting too. So this is a rabbit that
we've actually talked about on the show before, but I
cannot do a rabbit episode without mentioning. This is the
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Mommy rabbit. It is the most ancient species of rabbit
in the world. It is endangered and found only on
two small Japanese islands, ami amani Oshima and toku Noshima.
So they are black, and they look like kind of
like an almost rabbit like if you imagine, like what
(33:57):
would a prehistoric rabbit look like? I think is kind
of fit the bill. They have shorter ears and less
pronounced hind legs, but they're definitely starting to get that
classic rabbit shape. It looks like a miniature kangaroo. I'm
not gonna lie. It was like it's got like a
very very round body like. Yes, the legs and back
(34:18):
are larger, little hands. Oh my god, it does look
more supial like, and I think What's interesting about that
is that marsupials diverged from other mammals really early on,
and so this being a really ancient species of rabbit,
it has that kind of marsupial look which it shares
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with other really old species of animals. And yeah, that
that is a really interesting observation. It's nifty looking. So
now let's talk about the biggest bunny in the world.
The biggest bunny. Who's the biggest bunny? So the largest
rabbit in the world is actually a domesticated species. It
is the Flemish giant rabbit. Oh my god, I want
(35:02):
to snuggle it. I want to boot that snoop. I
want to boot the snoot. It's a big snoot to boot.
So it is a breed of domesticated European rabbit and
they weigh around fifteen pounds, which is almost seven kilograms,
but record holders can weigh over twenty pounds or tens.
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The longest rabbit ever recorded is a Flemish rabbit and
it reaches over four ft long or one point three
meters from the tip of their little boopable snoot to
the back of their legs. Is a big bunny? Is
that big bunny you oh my god. But also the
fairy is luxurious, like if you seem like mink or
(35:49):
like a chinchilla before it's giving me those vibes, be
oh god, I bet it's so just great to pay.
Oh my god. They're also very apparently quite docile in
terms of pet rabbits, so they tolerate being held pretty well.
If you can lift the ding thing. Look at that chunkster.
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Oh okay. So obviously more research is required, but I
am definitely looking into the fumage giant rabbit. What a
baby if you have the budget for a billion carras well.
Now let's talk about the smallest buns in the world.
Wat baby buns. So this smallest bunny in the world
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is a wild species called the pygmy rabbit found in
North America. On average, they weigh just under a pound,
so dred grams. They have a maximum body length under
a foot around twenties four centameters. And when I'm talking
about body length, I mean like if you stretch out
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the bunny like you hold hold the bunny under the belling,
you know, eat the bunnies all kind of like stretched
out um from like the tip of their nose to
to their butt area. That's how long they get. But
if they're once, when they're in that kind of classic
like little bunny sitting position, you can just if you
hold out both your hands and cut them, you could
PLoP that rabbit right in there like a little scooba
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ice cream you. The smallest domesticated rabbit is the another
Land dwarf rabbit, and it's just hair bigger than the
pygmy rabbit. Pun intended. I'm I'm a mean person. Um.
It is a teeny tiny little thing with short ears
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and round bodies. They could not survive in the wild. No.
Just looking at it, I'm like, you need humans to
help you because otherwise death. Oh. Like the it's the
pug of like the rabbit world. It is this little, tiny,
squishy baby. My heart is melting looking at although the
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I'm not it's all white with like a red and
yellow eye. I'm not gonna lie. That one looks kind
of demonic. But then there's this other one that's really
fluffy grained cheek ease, Oh my god, yeah, they're both.
Those are both the Netherland dwarf rabbits. Just one is
a all white coat and the other one is a
longer haired gray coat and yeah, very cute. I wanna
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wanna kiss kiss his little nose. Uh. And so they
have very short, petite ears, but the biggest ears get
quite big. So oh my god, oh my god. So
the domesticated species called or domesticated breed called the English
lop has the biggest ears, and a record holder has
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ears over thirty or seventy nine centimeters long. So I
feel like if you put this rabbit and like a cartoonish,
you know, sling, and then like try to launch it,
I think you'd get a bit of air. Okay, you
know that song? Do your ears saying low? Do they broke?
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Can you tie him in a boat? This? He can
tie his in a boat? Okay. They must trip over
them and they trag on the floor. What did we
do this to them? Did we breathe them? Because I
thought it was adorable? We are monsters, were also this.
This is how I feel about pure bred dogs as well.
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It's like a cute, but we're also monsters. They're horrible.
But oh my god, you can't even see one of
these bunnies for all of their ears and see a
little nose and then just its ears draped around it.
That's the record holder. I'm sure the care that you
have to do for those ears is just intense. Yeah,
(39:48):
you know. And it's not like you can tie them.
It's not like you have long hair, like I'll just
tie these back for the day because that's got to
be painful. And they're a little joint things. Oh no,
but in a a towel. Time up in a towel. Now, yeah,
you got you got a rich luxury people brand of bunny.
They have like a servant for their bunnies ear specifically,
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a special caretaker deals with this ling. The bunny butler,
the bun butler. The longest fur is, of course, anga rabbits.
They are ridiculous poofball. The record holder is a bunny,
an Ingora rabbit who has for over a foot long
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or thirty six centimeters long. Just looks like a star
Trek triple. This thing, yes it does. It looks exactly
like a star Trek triple. I want to blue dry
its hair. I want to put it in a Pantine
pro v commercial to get out, bounce it around like,
oh my god, It's face just becomes subsumed by the fur,
(40:58):
like I can't even see the bunny face barely because
it's just getting It's just it's just all fluff. And
I actually got this really lovely listener email about Angora
bunnies that I would like to share with you from
someone who owns Angora bunnies. Um so this is from Kayla,
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who writes to me, I got to share some bunny
facts with you. This is my two year old satin
and gore rabbit. She is my emotional support animal and
has superpowers in her wool. When I first got her,
I consumed so many bun facts that I thought you
might enjoy. I've included pictures of her post sharing and
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just loafing around buns love loafing and Joel. I have
show shared with you the picture of this incredible bun
with the incredible buns. Like the little bunny tushy just
a poof. I really like it's a little fishy. It's
so big. I it has them is a perfect name
because it's like in uh brunette redhead sort of vibes
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going on gorgeous, your very gorgeous. Yes, you have a
beautiful bunny. You have a beautiful bun. And I don't
mean that in a weird way. But Kayla wrote a
bunch of bunny facts that I do want to share
with you guys because I think these are really fascinating.
So Kayla writes, rabbit wool is the strongest and warmest
wool available. It is arguably the softest and a little
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goes a long way in keeping you warm. Amazing, and
oh with Ngora like they don't. This is my note.
I'm saying this, like with Ingora's sweaters and stuff. They
they share the rabbit like they do with um sheep.
So it's not it's not rabbit skin, it's just the
wool that makes me feel better. Yes, the best. And
then Kayla writes, the best way to share a bun
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is not to trim, which I did, gosh it was hard,
but to brush and pluck during one of their four
sheddings per year. Plucking does not hurt the bun when
the fur is already detached. It just helps them get
that wool off of their new coat. So that's interesting.
So you're just kind of brushing them out and you're
getting wool by petting them. I love that. It's it's
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like soothing for you helps the bunduct afterwards love that trifecta.
I think that's the truth. That's also the case for
the case for yaks. Maybe I think with like a
yak hair uh or some I think might be thinking
of some other big hooved, fuzzy animal, But I think
with yak hair, you you have to collect it by
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just brushing them. You don't share them or anything. You
go um or like they leave clumps behind because they're shedding,
and you go and collect the clumps. Uh. Yeah, I
guess these angora rabbits do shed quite well, which I
guess if you're gonna own one, you better be prepared. Listen,
you're just buster ready. I've got special pet vacuums, a
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literal godsend. They just get all of it up and
they're not going to die on you, which is what
you need. I really wish. I man, it just sounds
very therapy to be like, I'm just gonna brush my
animal for a little bit and a sweater, right, and
then we'll just spin that wool up and make a
little sweater, and my life is peaceful and everything that
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I own gives back to me in other ways. I
just want to go to a bunny farm now. I
live on a self sustaining farm. Everything breeds new things,
go on a bun farm and then make little sweaters
and then put the sweaters on other bunnies. Yes, so
Kayla also continues, some angoras can spend their shedding wool
(44:47):
right off of them. There's YouTube videos showing off this
cool technique. What bunnies even enjoys settling down or napping
while being plucked or spun because you're doing them a
huge favor. So I imagine when she said, say, like
talks about plucking your you're very gently like pulling on
the first of the loose stuff comes out, and so
(45:07):
they can like spin it right off the rabbit, and
they're jill about it because it's like you're, oh, man,
I know it's been so long in pandemic, but once
once we all get our vaccines and get out of here,
like going to the hair salon and having them walk
brush your hair and wash your hair, I miss it.
I love it, uh it I have. I've been really
(45:30):
really good about my quarantine, like I can't mess around
and a lot of different blots in my body. But
the way I miss my salon and my stylist was
emailing her and I was like, so, talk to me
again about procedure. How are you doing hair? How can
I be there and get this color correct? Because you know,
a year and a half is that my color is
(45:52):
now on my ends. Everything else is my natural color.
I have to re emerge into society. I can't wait.
These bunnies, I'm envious. Kayle also writes that angoras must
be brush regardless of care style, otherwise the buns can
get wool blocks in their tummies. Oh no, bunnies can't
vomit or process these blockages. They can enter g I
(46:14):
stasis and this is apparently lethal. So yeah, you got.
If you get angora, you gotta brush your bun. You
gotta brush your bun. Make sure you take care of
your rabbits, your little bunnies. But I really, oh man,
oh man, do I wish I had to like just
brush your bunny as this is part of its care.
(46:36):
This isn't even fushun. Yeah no, this is a medical procedure.
I'm a doctor, I'm a bunny doctor, and I'm brushing
this bunny. You don't even know. He could face life
threatening things if I do not brush him. This bunny
needs twenty c ss of brushes stack. Hayle also writes
that bunnies purr when content are happy. They softly grind
(46:56):
their teeth, making a little purring noise. Very cute. They
also honk, but they that's usually during courtship. Wow, horny
honk and bunnies uh, grinding their little teeth together when
they're when they're purring. Amazing. I thought we had reached
peak cuteness, and then I learned the bunnies pur and
now I live in a new age. It's a new day. Yeah,
(47:17):
and so Kyles says, those were some fun, fun facts.
They're really cool to learn about. I hope you enjoy
my baby Ember. She has a red coat, so she's
extra special since that's a rare coloration. Thank you, Kaylea
so much for your email. I also agree having red
hair is very special and great. I am Kayla, thank you.
(47:40):
Thank you really improved my life with these facts. Imber
is a diva. She's beautiful. She is gorgeous. I love
the man, but though glorious a little puffy bunny. But well,
I think we've done it. I think we have explored
(48:01):
the world of bunnies, just in time for the bunny season.
Um and yeah, did you enjoy a trip down Cottontail Lane?
Or wait what here comes Peter Cottontail? Yeah for the
rabbit hippy easters on its way? Do do eaten all
(48:22):
his poopy poops? I wasn't prepared? I did. I did
have a lot of fun. Um. I love rabbits. My
favorite book coming up was Peter Cottontail. I read it
a lot. Beatrice knew what she was doing with her
cute littleted a legend. She was aware, she was a legendary. Amazing,
(48:47):
her illustrations amazing, so pretty. I'm going to try to
resist adopting a bunny as I think my pi. Would
you know, think food? No't what that would be the
worst thing ever. Oh no, now I'm sad again. Well,
(49:07):
thank you so much for joining me today. Where can
the people find you? Oh man, thank you for having
me back, Katie. I missed doing the show and learning
all of the adorable animal facts. Um, my name is
Joel Monique. You can find me all over the internet
at Joel Monique. That's j O E l o E
m O win I q e um. I'm over at
fake Doctor's real friends were still in down production a bit.
(49:29):
There's the guys head back to work. We're still having
a lot of fun recapping every episode of Scrubs ever. Um,
Yes and undertaking. And I have a new podcast coming
out in May. It is a Star Wars podcast. It's
called The Black Side. It's being Donald talking Star Wars
once a week where we break down a classic movie.
(49:51):
Maybe we're look at some of the TV shows, reading
some of the comics of the books, like interviews with
the authors. It's a good time. Un check us out
on Maybe they're bunnies in Star Wars. You know, I
can't tell you that right now. Listen, there are very
cute animals in Star Wars. And after this, uh, a
(50:12):
little interview here, I'll give you some inside Star War school.
The other day, I'm getting juicy inside details that you
guys can't hear. Back at everyone, Sorry, I don't mean that.
I love you guys. Thank you so much for listening. Uh.
You can find the podcast on the internet at Creature
Feature Pod on Instagram, at Creature feet Pod on Twitter.
(50:33):
That's EPI a t not epy et something very different. Uh.
And you can send me your bunny pictures or whatever,
any pets, any question, any comments to Creature feature pod
at gmail dot com and I'm Kate Golden. You probably
knew that, but here it is again, and thank you
(50:53):
so much. If you want to leave a rating or review,
that actually really helps. And I read them all and
I really appreciate that. Uh so, thank you everyone who
have reviewed the podcast. I've read it all makes me happy,
it warms my my little rabbit heart. And thanks to
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