I thought this would be fun to talk about and bring up.
Today I brought one of my younger rabbits that was a bit more tame into the house. I put her sort of on my lap and under my coat while wearing it. The interesting thing about this is that she'd sort of try to dig through my coat and the couch. She sort of moves around, looks for a place to hide and dig, tries to dig, rinse repeat. This is quite frequent and happens several times in a 2 to 5 minute period with breaks between the spurts.
Anyway this kind of behavior is interesting.
When they are outside I can't observe this much and hadn't much until now.
But I think it is survival instinct, survival genes, etc whatever you want to call it. I'm guessing you can say this is even healthy behavior that should be promoted in breeding because in a natural environment this would allow the doe to survive.
But what's also interesting is that this behavior was in an ordinary white new zealander that you wouldn't guess to have these behaviors.
It seemed interesting to bring up.
And I wondered also what other survival characteristics and behaviors others are observing? What do you think? What have you seen?
Today I brought one of my younger rabbits that was a bit more tame into the house. I put her sort of on my lap and under my coat while wearing it. The interesting thing about this is that she'd sort of try to dig through my coat and the couch. She sort of moves around, looks for a place to hide and dig, tries to dig, rinse repeat. This is quite frequent and happens several times in a 2 to 5 minute period with breaks between the spurts.
Anyway this kind of behavior is interesting.
When they are outside I can't observe this much and hadn't much until now.
But I think it is survival instinct, survival genes, etc whatever you want to call it. I'm guessing you can say this is even healthy behavior that should be promoted in breeding because in a natural environment this would allow the doe to survive.
But what's also interesting is that this behavior was in an ordinary white new zealander that you wouldn't guess to have these behaviors.
It seemed interesting to bring up.
And I wondered also what other survival characteristics and behaviors others are observing? What do you think? What have you seen?