Some fun and useful facts about rabbits!
- A rabbit’s teeth never stop growing. Have 28 teeth in total. Upper and lower incisors can grow 1/2″-3/4″ per month.
- A rabbit chews 120 times per minute and has 17, 000 taste buds.
- A 4 pound rabbit will drink as much water as a 20 pound dog
- The only place a rabbit sweats is through the pads on its feet
- Rabbits purr by softly grinding their teeth.
- Rabbits can run up to 35 miles per hour (53 kilometers an hour).
- Rabbits regulate their body temperature through their ears.
- Rabbits can be easily trained to use a litter box.
- Rabbits can see behind them without turning their heads.
- Rabbits are not rodents; they are lagomorphs,
(lag·o·morph (la’geh-môrf’) n.
Any of various plant-eating mammals having fully furred feet and two pairs of upper incisors and belonging to the order Lagomorpha, which includes the rabbits, hares, and pikas.) 
Rabbits have an average heart beat of 130 to 325 beats per minute.- Rabbits cannot vomit or cough up hairballs
- A group of rabbits is called a herd.
- A well cared for rabbit has a life span of 8- 12 years.
- A group of rabbits lives in a warren
- A male is called a buck and a female is called a doe.
- Babies are called kittens, kits for short.
- Rabbits are inquisitive and intelligent and can learn their names and simple words
- President Abraham Lincoln’s sons kept rabbits in the White House.
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