This rabbit sculpture was bought while traveling in Zhangjiajie in 1999
1. [It is not a hare but a rabbit that can make a hole.] The hares and rabbits we often talk about today are mostly divided into rabbits and burrowing rabbits under the family Rabbitidae. The domestic rabbits raised by people today were gradually domesticated and bred from wild European burrowing rabbits.
2. [The difference between a rabbit and a hare is whether it can make a hole. The rabbit is a master of burrowing, while the hare does not burrow and relies on its natural long legs to walk the rivers and lakes.
3. [The rabbit belongs to the genus Cave Rabbit.] Our common rabbit has little to do with the rabbit and belongs to the genus Burrowing Rabbit. Rabbits are particularly good at digging burrows, with front and back paws that can dig a systematic underground passage. The burrowing rabbit probably originated in the Iberian Peninsula in Europe, with the earliest fossils found in Spain and France.
4. [In English, rabbit and hare are two different words. In English, the hare is hare and the rabbit is rabbit
5. [The rabbit spoken of in ancient China is not the same thing as today's rabbit. The earliest record of rabbit raising in China is in the Warring States period, when the king of the State of Zhao raised tigers, and in order to improve the food of tigers, he also raised many rabbits. However, the hare has a more untamed personality and has not been successfully domesticated anywhere in the world. Today, domesticated rabbits around the world are derived from European burrowing rabbits, and scholars basically agree that the earliest domestication of domestic rabbits occurred in French monasteries in the Middle Ages
6. [Hare does not make holes, what does it rely on to survive in the wild?] The escape skill is its most important choice. In the natural food chain, rabbits are low-ranking herbivores, and they use escape as their first choice when encountering enemies. In order to survive in the strong nature, the rabbit has practiced a lot of escape skills, the jianghu people call the rabbit run, and the equipment on the body is prepared for escape.
7. [As a small animal, rabbits have many natural enemies.] Various birds of prey flying from the sky, all kinds of predators and reptiles running on the ground all write rabbits on their menus. But the seemingly weak rabbit is invincible in nature and endless.
8. [What are the skills of a running rabbit?] As a result, a keen perceptual organ has evolved, with two eyes with a wide perspective like a panoramic camera, which can quickly and effectively detect approaching predators from almost any direction; The large, upright ears are exceptionally sensitive, and the rabbit ears are long and can rotate 270 degrees, and their main function is to listen to sounds and dissipate heat from farther away. It can not only detect slight rings from a distance, but also help the eyes to distinguish the position and distance of nearby objects.
9. [How good are rabbits at running?] Rabbits also have strong hind legs that are much longer than their forelimbs and are good at jumping and running. Running at speeds of more than 70 kilometers per hour, faster than horses, sometimes tigers may not be able to catch up.
10. [Why does the word "Yi" use "rabbit" + "of"?] The "Yi" in Chinese characters for escape comes from a rabbit that is good at running
11. [What do you think of rabbits' eyesight?] Although the rabbit does not have good eyesight, it has a 360-degree ultra-wide field of view in both eyes and likes to sleep with its eyes open
12. [What is the use of the rabbit's two big ears?] Most rabbits have two long ears that can detect predators like radar and regulate body temperature. The hotter the climate, the larger the rabbit's ears, and there is a species of American desert hare with larger ears than the face
13. [Rabbits used to belong to the same order as mice in terms of division.] For a long time, rabbits were divided into rodents, that is, a family of mice. It wasn't until it was discovered that the rabbit had a pair of front teeth hidden behind its front teeth that the rabbit and the mouse were separated.
14. [Rabbit is a general term for animals belonging to the order Rabbit, including two families: rabbit and pika. Because they both have lifelong large teeth, rabbits and mice have long been thought to be closely related, and taxonomists have placed them together in the rodent class. From the biological classification point of view, rabbit is a general term for animals belonging to the order Rabbits, including rabbits and pikas, rabbits refer to the general term of all animals in the mammalian order Rabbits.
15. [Rabbit now has two large families. One is our common rabbit family with long ears; The other is the pika, which has short ears and looks like a mouse, and the pika is also the most wanted criminal in the grassland.
16. [How many types of rabbits are there?] Today's rabbits are divided into more than 60 species in 9 genera. There are burrowing rabbits originating in Europe, cottontail rabbits from the Americas, red rabbits from Africa, and Ryukyu rabbits in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. Among them, the most widely distributed is the genus Hare, and China lives these 9 species of hares
17. [Angora rabbit has nothing to do with the African country Angola. Angora rabbits are said to have come from the Turkish province of Angola and were later found to have come from the United Kingdom. The angora rabbit, which has thick hair, first developed in the Norman region of France, where hand-woven textiles flourished.
18. [The bones of rabbit-shaped animals are light and brittle, and it is difficult to preserve fossils in nature.] In 2007, Chinese scientists found 5400-year-old rabbit fossils in Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia, which is probably the earliest known rabbit-shaped fossil, named Dawson rabbit.
19. [Rabbits are at the bottom of the food chain. The rabbit is a small mammal weighing about 5~8 kg. The living environment is very extensive, grasslands, forests, deserts, wetlands, it seems that you can live anywhere, so that you can continue to survive in the food chain.
20. [What is the food that rabbits like to eat?] Rabbits' favorite food is not carrots, but high-fiber plants that aid digestion.
21. [Are rabbits herbivores?] In the past, rabbits were thought to be harmless herbivores, but scientists later discovered that rabbits occasionally eat meat. And they will also eat carrion, even meat of the same kind. When the mother rabbit is frightened, she will not hesitate to eat her baby!
22. [Rabbits eat their own feces, do you believe it?] After digesting food, rabbits excrete two kinds of feces. One is granular feces and the other is soft stool. Because soft stools contain commensal bacteria that break down cellulose, rabbits immediately eat soft stools. The rabbit taste is a bit heavy.
23. [The rabbit's survivability also benefits from its strong reproductive ability.] Each female rabbit can give birth to about 30 rabbits a year, and it is this strong fecundity that allows rabbits to continue the population well in the face of many natural enemies.
24. [Rabbits have two separate sets of uteruses.] In order to reproduce the population, rabbits also have the ability to reproduce against the sky. There is no fixed estrus period and can be produced 5 to 6 times a year. The number of litters per litter can reach about 6 to 10, and there are two separate sets of uteruses, which are given here and pregnant there, without delay.
25. [Rabbits, one of the world's top 100 invasive species.] Because of the strong reproductive ability of rabbits, the Balearic Islands in the 1st century AD, Australia in 1859, and New Zealand in 1864 all caused serious ecological disasters due to the arrival of humans with rabbits. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the rabbit as one of the world's top 100 invasive species.
26. [Australians hate rabbits. In our case, rabbits are very popular animals. But it's not the same in Australia. The governments of Australia and New Zealand faced rabbit plagues and finally used biological and chemical weapons to barely control them, which is still a headache for the environment. For this reason, Australians have psychological shadows and hate rabbits, and New Zealand also has a special rabbit eradication committee
27. [Why do rabbits have red eyes?] The genetic mutation causes the rabbit's iris to lose color, and we see that the red color of the rabbit's eyes is actually the color of its blood.
28. ["Flying spotted rabbit" describes the deliciousness of rabbit meat.] Birds are like ducks, and walking beasts are like rabbits. Rabbit meat is tender and delicious, loved by gourmets from ancient times to the present, and the big foodie Su Dongpo once wrote a poem for the rabbit to praise: "Rabbit meat is everywhere, for the taste of food." "In China, a country with dry rice, rabbit meat can be called the essence of food, and since ancient times, there has been a saying that "birds are like birds, and beasts are like rabbits". In the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese medicine boss Li Shizhen also excavated the medicinal value of rabbit meat to prolong life. Today, rabbit meat is still a Chinese table delicacy, used by Cantonese people to make soup, and Sichuanese to use it for spicy.
29. [The Spanish national meal, paella, has no seafood.] It was originally cooked with rabbit meat and snails, and there was nothing to do with seafood. In the 5th century, French Catholic monks were not allowed to eat meat other than fish during their fasting, and the Pope announced that the rabbit was also a fish, and everyone happily ate rabbit meat Today there is also a famous French dish called salted plum stewed rabbit, and the French also like to use rabbit meat to make sausages.
30. [China's total rabbit products account for the first place in the world. Today, the World Rabbit Center is in China, Italy, Spain and France. China not only ranks first in the world in total rabbit products, but also ranks first in the world in terms of exports. And the categories are relatively complete, whether it is meat rabbits or fur rabbits, they have formed a complete industrial chain.
31. [People in Sichuan, China, eat 200 million rabbits a year. This number accounts for one-fifth of the world, especially the rabbit braincase.
32. [Europeans domesticated rabbits for hunting for pleasure in addition to eating and fur. By the 14th century, King Henry IV of France owned a rabbit hunting garden in the modern Paris area.
33. [Rabbits have more than white rabbits.] In the 17th century, rabbit connoisseurs in France, Belgium, Germany, England, and the Netherlands, in order to cater to the fur market, used coat color mutations to breed white, light blue, gray rabbits, and rabbit eye color is also related to coat color.
34. [Rabbits made great contributions to experiments.] In addition to mice, rabbits were one of the world's first animals to be used for experimental purposes. In 1885, the world's microscopic grandfather Pasteur obtained attenuated rabies virus strains in experimental rabbits, thus making a live attenuated vaccine that ended the era of unpreventable human rabies. Many vaccines, including cholera vaccines and AIDS vaccines, have been studied in experimental rabbits.
35. [How are rabbits related to the moon?] Since ancient times, it has been accompanied by humans, probably because the moon sea is shaped like a rabbit, and in some ancient civilizations rabbits are often associated with the moon The ancient Indian scripture Rigveda, dated around 1000 BC, states that there are rabbits in the moon, and the root of many moon-related words in Sanskrit is rabbit. In ancient Chinese mythology, there was a rabbit pounding medicine on the moon, and the moon rabbit evolved into the legendary rabbit grandfather who eliminated the plague. China's first lunar rover, the Jade Rabbit. China's lunar rovers are named after rabbits, and the mascot of China's lunar landing program is also a rabbit. In traditional Chinese mythology, the jade rabbit lives in the moon's moon palace and is the fairy rabbit responsible for pounding medicine. Chang'e ran to the moon and flew to the moon, and the jade rabbit became a pet beside Chang'e.
36. [Rabbits are very popular with children. In the Beijing area of China, rabbit is not only a deity worshipped during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also a toy for children. Influenced by Chinese culture, it is also mentioned in the Korean nursery rhyme "Little White Boat" that there are rabbits on the moon. The rabbit of Japanese mythology gave up the medical business to make mochi on the moon. In Western culture, the rabbit was the pet of Venus, the goddess of love, and later became a symbol of Easter in Christian culture. During the festival, the Easter Bunny prepares a basket of gifts for the little ones in the morning, including colored eggs, chocolates and bunny candy.
37. [White rabbit milk candy was affected by an incident. The incident has taught people a lesson in food safety, strengthened people's awareness of food safety, and played a big role in promoting food safety. Today, I still love eating white rabbit milk candy, and many people cherish it.
38. [There are many stories related to rabbits in fairy tale fables. "Little Rabbit Obediently" is a classic nursery rhyme composed in 1920 by Li Jinhui, the "father of Chinese children's song and dance", and the lyrics teach children not to open the door to strangers.
39. [Rabbits are human pets. Because of its cute appearance and docile personality, today some domestic rabbit breeds, such as the British Angora rabbit and the French lop-eared rabbit, have become human pets.
40. [The rabbit is an auspicious thing. Influenced by ancient Celtic culture, in many Western countries, rabbit feet are a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness. As an auspicious object, rabbits often appear on various artifacts and paintings. Many Americans like to hang rabbit feet under the rearview mirror in their cars and pray for a safe and smooth road. The rabbit in the Chinese zodiac became a symbol of spring and morning, and people regarded the rabbit as the cycle of life.
41. [Rabbits have also become an important role in literature and film. In 1902, British female writer Porter wrote the world-famous "Peter Rabbit" based on a rabbit she had raised in her childhood Peter Rabbit is known as the pioneer of European and American picture books, and has been popular for more than a century. In 1955, Dutch illustrator Bruner created the cartoon image of Miffy Rabbit, Miffy means Dutch bunny, and HelloKitty was created in imitation of Miffy. Today there is also a Miffy Museum in Bruner's hometown of Utrecht, where locals are proud of Miffy Rabbits, even the traffic lights are rabbits. There are also bugs bunny from the United States, rogue rabbits from South Korea, and various rabbit images are everywhere in our lives.
42. [The dreaded "chicken and rabbit in the same cage.] This question was around 1500 years ago! The "pheasant rabbit in the same cage" recorded in the "Sun Tzu Suanjing" during the Southern and Northern Dynasties: "Today there are pheasants and rabbits in the same cage, with thirty-five heads on top and ninety-four feet below. Ask the pheasant about its geometry. "When you were studying, did you ever suffer from this problem?
Sitting on the desk shelf for more than 20 years, its other eye has also fallen off.
For the above, some of them are actually not "cold", what other "cold knowledge" do you know about "rabbits"?