{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-18T02:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-06-18T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T01:37:14","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Wildlife&#8217;s Ruthless Rabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcwildlifemagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Wildlife<\/a> today. It features an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/bioweb2.bio.uea.ac.uk\/faculty\/BellD.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Diana Bell<\/a> on the territorial behaviour of wild rabbits. Bell has studied a colony of (European) wild rabbits at the University of East Anglia for the past 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>The European Rabbit is the same species as our domestic pets, so understanding their behaviour can provide a helpful incite into the behaviour of our pet bunnies.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Bell describes how male rabbits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>patrol their territory boundaries, scent-marking them with urine and secretions from their chin and anal glands to ensure that their neighbours respect these borders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behaviour which I&#8217;m sure is very familar to those who have lived with an unneutered buck.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting part is the social structure within the warren. The males and the females each have a social heirachy (pecking order) which they may fight to maintain. This provides a potential explanation for male-female (neutered) pairs are the most successful match in pet rabbits. Two or more of the same sex rabbits would naturally form a heirachy and if they don&#8217;t agree who&#8217;s boss that&#8217;s when fights can occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of BBC Wildlife today. It features an article by Dr Diana Bell on the territorial behaviour of wild rabbits. Bell has studied a colony of (European) wild rabbits at the University of East Anglia for the past 23 years. The European Rabbit is the same species as our domestic pets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[75,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}