Previously, researchers assumed that wild rabbits ate calcium-rich foods like leafy greens to maintain their growth, but now, ...
She knows which rabbits have picky hay-eating habits, which ones are particularly good mothers, and which ones like to rearrange their cages. A bunny barn is called a rabbitry, and the smell ...
Rabbits may eat fragments of their own teeth when they chomp on food — meaning each mouthful could contain a healthy dose of calcium, scientists say. Rabbits require large amounts of calcium, because ...
Cottontails who survive winter see their population begin to rebound in March, when females give birth to the first litter of ...
Because rabbits eat a lot of fibrous grass and vegetables, they have teeth that continue to grow throughout their lives, called permanent teeth, and their incisors, which are equivalent to human ...
Rabbits' teeth grow continuously, and bunnies wear them down by munching fiber-rich foods. Scientists suggest rabbits recycle a fine powder resulting from this constant grinding to fuel tooth growth.