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    Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae. The European rabbit is familiar worldwide as both a wild prey animal and domestic livestock or pet. With its widespread effects on ecology and culture, the rabbit plays a daily role for many as a food source, for clothing, as a companion, and in art. While once considered rodents, rabbits are now understood to have diverged earlier than rodents and lack traits like rodents. A male rabbit is called a buck, a female a doe, and young rabbits are called kittens or bunnies. Groups of rabbits are known as colonies, nests, or warrens.

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    Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae. The European rabbit is familiar worldwide as both a wild prey animal and domestic livestock or pet. With its widespread effects on ecology and culture, the rabbit plays a daily role for many as a food source, for clothing, as a companion, and in art. While once considered rodents, rabbits are now understood to have diverged earlier than rodents and lack traits like rodents. A male rabbit is called a buck, a female a doe, and young rabbits are called kittens or bunnies. Groups of rabbits are known as colonies, nests, or warrens.

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    Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae. The European rabbit is familiar worldwide as both a wild prey animal and domestic livestock or pet. With its widespread effects on ecology and culture, the rabbit plays a daily role for many as a food source, for clothing, as a companion, and in art. While once considered rodents, rabbits are now understood to have diverged earlier than rodents and lack traits like rodents. A male rabbit is called a buck, a female a doe, and young rabbits are called kittens or bunnies. Groups of rabbits are known as colonies, nests, or warrens.

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    Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae. The European rabbit is familiar worldwide as both a wild prey animal and domestic livestock or pet. With its widespread effects on ecology and culture, the rabbit plays a daily role for many as a food source, for clothing, as a companion, and in art. While once considered rodents, rabbits are now understood to have diverged earlier than rodents and lack traits like rodents. A male rabbit is called a buck, a female a doe, and young rabbits are called kittens or bunnies. Groups of rabbits are known as colonies, nests, or warrens.

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    Rabbit

    Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also
    contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). Oryctolagus cuniculus
    includes the European rabbit species and its descendants, the world's 305 breeds[1] of domestic rabbit.
    Sylvilagus includes 13 wild rabbit species, among them the seven types of cottontail. The European
    rabbit, which has been introduced on every continent except Antarctica, is familiar throughout the world
    as a wild prey animal and as a domesticated form of livestock and pet. With its widespread effect on
    ecologies and cultures, the rabbit is, in many areas of the world, a part of daily life—as food, clothing, a
    companion, and a source of artistic inspiration.

    Although once considered rodents, lagomorphs like rabbits have been discovered to have diverged
    separately and earlier than their rodent cousins and have a number of traits rodents lack, like two extra
    incisors.

    Terminology and etymology

    A male rabbit is called a buck; a female is called a doe. An older term for an adult rabbit used until the
    18th century is coney (derived ultimately from the Latin cuniculus), while rabbit once referred only to
    the young animals.[2] Another term for a young rabbit is bunny, though this term is often applied
    informally (particularly by children) to rabbits generally, especially domestic ones. More recently, the
    term kit or kitten has been used to refer to a young rabbit.

    A group of rabbits is known as a colony or nest (or, occasionally, a warren, though this more commonly
    refers to where the rabbits live).[3] A group of baby rabbits produced from a single mating is referred to
    as a litter[4] and a group of domestic rabbits living together is sometimes called a herd.[5]

    The word rabbit itself derives from the Middle English rabet, a borrowing from the Walloon robète,
    which was a diminutive of the French or Middle Dutch robbe.[6]

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