If Bugs Bunny still has a carrot in his mouth, he's a fictional character.
In the real world, rabbits don't have such an obsession with these vegetables.
These small mammals, even in their domestic form, are rarely fed carrots: they are too rich in sugars and give them cavities and intestinal disorders.
We much prefer cabbage, hay, leaves of all kinds and pellets.
If carrots are avoided, their tops are welcome in rabbit feeders.
Thus, their masters can feast on the tubers, feed their animals with the rest and thus carry out a beautiful anti-waste operation.
What about wild rabbits?
In the wild, there are nearly 30 species of wild rabbits that don't eat carrots!
Not only are they vegetable plants that would not exist without us and therefore are not part of the diet of species unrelated to humans, but above all rabbits are mainly interested in greenery.
They mainly like grass and leaves;
depending on the species and their habitat, they can be quite varied plants.
Wild rabbits are indeed found all over the world, including in amazing places with very special vegetation.
The water rabbit (
Sylvilagus aquaticus
) for example, which lives in swamps and wetlands in the southern United States, is a good swimmer and a great fan of reed leaves, switchgrass and brambles.
Nutall's cottontail (
Sylvilagus nuttallii
), which lives in North American mountains, is able to climb trees to eat greenery and bark in desert regions.
Sumatran rabbit (
Nesolagus netscheri
) feeds on plants it finds on the forest floor of the equatorial jungle.
However, all rabbits have one food in common: their own excrement.
As they feed mainly on cellulose, which is difficult to digest, this “double digestion” allows them to extract all the nutrients.
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