Talk:Rabbit
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"Rabbit" is really the young of the animal, the correct name for which is "coney" (pronounced "cunny"). (The alleged "Coney Island" should really be pronounced "Cunny Island.") This is an interesting example of a euphemism that the article could stand to address. --user:Daniel C. Boyer
- In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (movie) there's a faithful recreation of the scene from the book where Sam Gamgee cooks "a nice brace o' coneys", but in the film he pronounces them like the island. The correct pronunciation is probably too close to a well-known obscenity to be used much nowadays. Lee M 02:11, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- "(The alleged "Coney Island" should really be pronounced "Cunny Island.")" <--- LOL --66.120.158.84 18:15, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
needs a better intro. we should assume a reader who does not know what a rabbit is, as with any article -- Tarquin 17:39 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
- Well, I'll get to it, don't worry. -- Marumari 20:23 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
And by the way, I'm posting a picture of my pet bunny soon, so keep your hands off! -- Marumari 21:34 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
Interested contributors, please see Talk:Rabbit (Australia). Tannin
The article metions hunting with a shotgun. That doesn't make sense, too much of the meat is destroyed by the large number of pellets. I would think that most people would use a rifle. In Britan and parts of the U.S., it was once popular to have a "boring" in a light-gauge side by side shotgun; the "boring" was a barrel for a rifle round which was fired by a second trigger. Hunters going through the wood for mixed game would use the two shotgun barrels for birds and the boring for rabbits and squirrels. I'll await comment before changing the article.
Also, will be uploading a photo of a wild rabbit shortly. Kat 20:53, 3 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Pic removed as it is a cottontail rabbit, not a European Rabbit (the subject of this page).
Does anyone have a pic of a wild European Rabbit suitable for the taxobox? - MPF 23:18, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Wild picture
Although it's not *quite* wild, I had a pet rabbit which was a cross-breed (wild/tame), coming off more wild, in looks and personality. I could submit a picture for opinions if anyone is interested? Selphie 15:46, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) **
Rabbit
Although this page associates "Rabbit" with "European Rabbit", some of the content deals with "rabbit" in the more general sense. For example, Bugs Bunny is definitely a cottontail rabbit. --Big_Iron 00:12, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Can someone explain why Rabbit was associated with European Rabbit on this page. While European Rabbits are certainly common around the world, since there is clearly now plenty of information about generic rabbits (more then European really). To me it seems like the European rabbit should have it's own page, and this page stick to information about Rabbit's in general. --Ahc
- I agree wholeheartedly; this "European Rabbit" should be a separate article, with the general stuff on the disambiguation page, or maybe a "Rabbit (mammal)" as an expanded page similar to a diambiguation page. Somebody ought to just look at the "What links here" list to see how very few of them deal specifically with the "European Rabbit". I'll just cut and paste the current ones here as a jumbles list: Gene Nygaard 17:49, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- (list deleted; see Special:Whatlinkshere/Rabbit)
- It seems to me that we could leave almost everything here that's here, excepting the first few paragraphs which need a rewrite to remove the European rabbit specific comments (of course moving them to a new article). I'm not clear what from this article should be moved to the disambiguation page. --Ahc 05:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Since I haven't heard any objections I was going to go ahead. However, European Rabbit forwards here. So how does one go about un-forwarding a page, so we can sevor the two articles and move some content to European Rabbit? --Ahc 04:56, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Enter European Rabbit in the search box, or click on the link I provided here. Then when you get to "Rabbit", underneath the title will be a little "redirected from European Rabbit" with the highlighted link. Click on it, then just edit the page removing the redirect and put in text. Gene Nygaard 06:22, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4274129.stm Rabbit news
rabbit phobia
I have read that rabbits are traditionally very unlucky onboard ships, where even word is not to be mentioned; much like Macbeth with actors. I found reference to this whilst working on recent biography of alexander selkirk (selkirk's island), however I have found very little further support for this idea.
