Talk:Rabbit

Rabbit is currently a Biology and medicine good article nominee. Nominated by Recon rabbit at 01:11, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: Mammals of the family Leporidae

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Musculature

There is a grammatical error in this section that I would like to correct. Julietta Swift (talk) 08:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As food...

There is a pop culture reference here that I think is worth mentioning. The South Sydney rugby league team, the Rabbitohs, is not named after rabbits (although that is unavoidably their symbol), but the people who sold hunted rabbits in the street in the afternoon during the Depression, who called "rabbit-oh" for anyone who may have been looking for cheap meat for dinner. Julietta Swift (talk) 09:00, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rabbit

In the article on rabbits, there is no mention of what these animals eat. Nothing. Zero. An obsession with categorization-- check. How to tell a rabbit from a hare-- check. An explanation as to why a Belgian hare is really a rabbit-- alrighty then. But not a word about what they eat? WTF. You gotta have a section on what an animal eats-- not just on humans eating them. Even Encyclopaedia Brittanica got this right-- a century before Al Gore invented the internet. Someone needs to jump on this task right away. Hop to it before readers begin gnawing on raw cabbages, out of frustration. Or raw carrots-- yum. 172.87.18.207 (talk) 10:12, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be a section on the diet of rabbits, but no one ever added references. The whole thing got collapsed into Cecotrophy years ago. I added a little about the diet from textbook of rabbit medicine. There's some stuff later on about a myth of carrot rich diets as well. Recon rabbit 12:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Behaviors in pets

Most of the info under "Behaviors" such as binkies and flopping appeared only relevant to domestic rabbits, and it wasn't even relevant enough to appear in that article, so I deleted it. I'm willing to reinstate the info if there are sources other than pet lifestyle blogs to support it or references on wild animals demonstrating the behavior, but I'm not finding any so far. Recon rabbit 18:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Nominator: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 01:11, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: DoctorWhoFan91 (talk · contribs) 18:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this one; article is kind of long, so expect initial comments in the next 48-72 hours. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 18:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a long article, so I will go heading by heading.

Lead

the ancestor of the world's hundreds of breeds[1] of domestic rabbit: sounds weird to be, consider rephrasing
Sylvilagus includes 13 wild rabbit species: The Sylvilagus genus includes ...
Why are these two genus mentioned specifically, and not the others? Explain in the para(are they the most numerous, the most common, the most ...?)

Terminology and etymology

The word rabbit itself derives...[8]: Make this the first para, and complete the route; what does the root word mean
derived ultimately from the Latin cuniculus: What does cuniculus mean/is derived from
Are you sure the refs for litter(Mereck Vet Manual), or "colony or nest"(Collective Noun Page) reliable?

Taxanomy

some of the genera and species: some of the extant genera and species
Can the images and list be presented better? To reduce the amount of scrolling required (maybe as a table, but that might be a bit complex to make)

In culture

of the figures.[151] The rabbits' role: Split the para here, and merge the corresponding para with the newly formed para

Folklore

Change section title to "Mythology and Folklore"
Remove the main article wikilink from here(if you want, merge from that article's folklore section to here, instead of the opposite)
Add the Easter bunny and just write mentioned above or something like that
The rabbit often appears in folklore as the trickster archetype as he uses his cunning to outwit his enemies.: Only example given is Central Africa, so just merge with that
The rabbit as ... a popular cartoon character.[176]: Makes these two paras the last paras
Make the current two last paras and the two paras mentioned above under a new section, such as modern times or something (choose a good subheading)
The Br'er rabbit is both folklore and modern, so mention in both with the diff refs, Disney under modern and A-A under folklore
The mix of bullet points and paras would look weird, consider choosing one type and make it coherent
Images would go under folklore, not Modern times, if it ends up confusing

Review 1/2

I'll review the other headings later. The article is very well written for such a complex topic, well done. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 08:09, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]