50 Bunnies Whose Cuteness Can't Be Challenged

If you’ve been on Bored Panda lately, you might have also noticed that we also did a similar list about bears. If you missed it, you’re welcome, I guess.

Anywho, while there are 8 species of bears, rabbits are a whole different deal, spanning 29 species with over 300 different breeds of domestic bunnies, if that’s your forte.

Now, here’s an answer to a question I have no doubt many of you have always wanted, but never dared to ask, and that is ‘why do rabbits love mounting everything (and everyone) so much?’

Well, fun fact, besides the obvious reproductive function, this is also their way of communicating. Besides the whole smell and urine thing that is used to convey things like group identity, sex, age, social and reproductive status, and territory ownership, there’s also the “humping” that’s all about effectively showing dominance and hierarchy. The more you know!

Unfortunately, the little critters live, on average, 8 to 12 years, and these are numbers for domestic bunnies. When it comes to wild ones, it’s hard to say, because if they don’t end up going down the food chain, they experience considerably higher levels of stress, and don’t have the same food stability domestic rabbits have.

But hey, you can keep them as pets, and if you give them a strawberry, they will resemble that bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail that can only be vanquished using a Holy Hand Grenade.

As we’ve mentioned earlier, there’s a list of bears that has recently hit the aether, so you can check out more here. Or you can check out this dog shedding challenge. Or quarantine cats. Or funny pets. There’s so much you haven’t seen yet...