Q 01/05

What is a baby rabbit commonly called?

A) Kit

B) Pup

C) Cub

D) Fawn

Answer · why

A) Kit

A baby rabbit is a kit, or kitten; kits arrive naked, blind and helpless, yet they grow so fast that most are weaned within about a month.

Q 02/05

Often mistaken for rodents, rabbits belong to which order of mammals?

A) Lagomorpha

B) Eulipotyphla

C) Artiodactyla

D) Perissodactyla

Answer · why

A) Lagomorpha

Lagomorpha is the order of rabbits, hares and pikas; all three were filed under the rodents until 1912, when zoologists gave them an order of their ow...

Q 03/05

Roughly how long is a rabbit's pregnancy?

A) 1 week

B) 1 month

C) 4 months

D) 1 year

Answer · why

B) 1 month

1 month: gestation lasts about 30 days, and a female can conceive again straight after giving birth, so a new litter can follow almost at once.

Q 04/05

What do owners call the twisting leap into the air that a happy pet rabbit makes?

A) Popcorn

B) Frolic

C) Scamper

D) Binky

Answer · why

D) Binky

A binky is the name: the rabbit jumps and twists its head and body in opposite directions, so abruptly that a new owner can mistake pure joy for a con...

Q 05/05

Which breed, nicknamed the 'gentle giant', is the largest domestic rabbit?

A) Checkered Giant

B) Flemish Giant

C) Giant Chinchilla

D) Giant Angora

Answer · why

B) Flemish Giant

The Flemish Giant can weigh 9 kg; it was bred around Ghent for meat and fur, perhaps as early as the 16th century, but is now better known as a docile...