Here's one way to look at the rabbit challenge: If the campus invaders in Victoria were rodents instead
of lagomorphs, would there still be some people insisting on a nonlethal response?
Not exact matches
For instance, from Encyclopedia Brittanica... «Some
lagomorphs (rabbits and hares) are capable
of re-ingesting moist and nutritionally rich fecal pellets, a practice considered comparable to cud - chewing in ruminants...»
Its teeth have roots and do not continuously grow as do the teeth
of present - day
lagomorphs, an animal order that includes the families
of rabbits, hares and pikas.
The mammal that was unearthed is the northern — most Eurasian specimen
of the Amphilagus genus - a large
lagomorph with primitive features.
Too bad one
of those little
lagomorphs didn't put on a mask, load some silver bullets in a bunny - sized six - gun, and hijack the film.
The python understandably interpreted the visual signals — opening cage, movement outside and the lovely odors
of bunny — to mean that he was about to receive the world's largest
lagomorph lunch, and acted appropriately.
Taenia species
of tapeworms have a life cycle that involves an intermediate host but it tends to be a small rodent (T. taenaeformis) or
lagomorph (rabbit, T. pisiformis).
Rabbits belong to a group
of animals called the
lagomorphs, which includes both the domesticated and wild rabbits.