Most cats are loved by everyone for their cute appearance, and the rabbit is one of the best, its flat head and fat body, coupled with the way it walks like an iron look, can easily turn over many people who see it for the first time.
However, few people know that this little guy who seems to be "worshiping in a cat" is not only recognized as a natural predator, but also notoriously difficult to keep in captivity, and almost only in the documentary can you see its "fang".
It is estimated that many people who do not know the slightest understanding of the rabbit will only think that it is an animal related to rabbits or monkeys when they hear this name, but it is indeed an orthodox carnivore, cat subfamily, rabbit genus of cats. It is said that the name rabbit is derived from the ancient Turkic language and rabbit-like habits of rabbits.
Rabbit fox native to our Central Asian region of a variety of mountain grassland areas, many bushes and desert Gobi is also their habitat to survive, mainly distributed in China's Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and other places, India, Russia, Nepal and other countries also exist, but the core area is still in china's high altitude area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
There are only 3 subspecies of the rabbit, namely the red rabbit, the highland rabbit, and the Baikal rabbit, which are distinguished by the different fur colors, which are light reddish brown, sand yellow and blue-gray respectively.
However, no matter which subspecies, from the appearance of the general is generally short and thick body, the forehead is wide, the snout is short, the ears are round and wide and short, in short, there is no place on the whole body that does not show these two descriptions.
The coat is very dense, the densest and longest hair of all cats, and it also has a softness that is different from that of ordinary cats, and the tip of the tail is black, which is very similar to the tail appearance of our traditional tanuki cat.
It looks like the body of the rabbit is rounded, in fact, it is just "fat", although the size is like a domestic cat, but the average weight of the adult rabbit is only about 2-3 kg, 50-65 cm of body length of 6-7 cm are supported by fluffy hair, and the thick hair of this body is to adapt to the barren and cold environment evolved.
Rabbit is a nocturnal animal, mostly active in the morning and dusk period, do not look at it mainly feeds on rats, rabbits, and the appearance is extremely cute, it is actually a fierce beast that is born to hunt.
The rabbit's hearing and vision are very developed, and it can keenly identify some of the threats lurking around, and after locking on to the prey, it will attack the target with lightning speed and give the prey a fatal blow.
Not only that, the rabbit also has the same round pupil as the lion, tiger, cheetah, for rapid focusing when continuous pursuit, in all the existing cats, only a few categories have this round pupil, and those with round pupils are the most capable of hunting and the existence of the best fighting ability in the feline, which is enough to prove the name of the rabbit's natural hunter.
Why is it said that rabbits are difficult to keep in captivity?
Humans and the domestication of one after another wild cats, to get the rabbit is naturally not a problem, rabbit fox is not suitable for artificial captivity is mainly due to two other points.
Rabbits, like many cats, prefer to be quiet, only love to live alone, they generally live alone in the rock crevices of the Gobi or in the caves of the grassland, neither willing to get along with other kinds nor close to humans, their solitary temperament is much stronger than other cats that prefer to live alone, it is a notorious existence, so it is certainly not suitable for artificial feeding.
Although we talked about the rabbit can survive in an extremely harsh environment, this does not mean that their physique is good, on the contrary, the innate immunity of the rabbit is very poor, in addition to the ability to resist the cold, there is no other strong self-protection ability. After adapting to the original living environment, the rabbits must be brought back to artificial captivity, they are very timid, they are very prone to the same stress response as ordinary cats, once infected with parasites or other diseases, regardless of the degree of death, the probability of death is very high.
In the past, there were some zoos that wanted to keep rabbits in captivity, but almost all of them ended in the death of rabbits, and at present, only a few rabbits are raised in Xining Wildlife Park in China, or after a long period of unremitting efforts by the staff in the park, they have been preserved.
Rabbit itself only lives in areas that are not suitable for human habitation, and the characteristics of feeding on rats cause it to maintain the balance of China's grassland ecology, which should be treated and protected by us, but accompanied by the indiscriminate hunting and killing of some miscreants, only to obtain rabbit fur for personal gain, the number of rabbit foxes has shown a downward trend year by year since the 50s of the last century, even if it is listed as a national protected animal, it is difficult to stop the pace of criminals' desire.
In this regard, we must take action to reject rabbit fur products, protect the living environment of rabbits, and report in a timely manner to maintain species diversity when it is found that there are outlaws who sell rabbit fur.
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