Dinner-time!

Hello Everybody! Today, I will be talking about Dinner-time for rabbits and hares! I hope you enjoy!


Dinner-Time!:

Rabbit and hares are most active at night. They spend the day in their forms snoozing and grooming themselves by licking their fur. Then, when it begins to get dark, they come out to look for food. It is safer for them to move around and feed when they cannot be seen.

Rabbit and hares are herbivores. This means they are animals that eat mostly plants. There is nothing a rabbit likes better than fresh greens, and it does not care where it finds them. No wonder farmers and gardeners sometimes think they are pests!

Rabbits enjoy eating short grass, clover, lettuce, weeds, and leafy bushes. They also like fruits and berries. And, of course, rabbits love carrots- if they can find them!

Rabbits sometimes drink water- but not that often. That's because the plants they eat are very moist and juicy.

Rabbit and hares are active all year, always searching for food. During the northern winter, they feed on twigs, buds and the bark of certain trees. In the Arctic, where everything is covered by snow most of the time, the hares dig down to get buried moss and plants called lichen (pronounced like'en). Arctic Hares need up to half a kilogram (a pound) of food per day. Sometimes, in order to survive the Arctic winter, they will eat meat if they find it.

Rabbit and hares have a set of very special front teeth to help them snip off plants and twigs for their dinner. Kangaroos can hop, and elephants have big ears, but no other animal teeth quite like those of our friends the rabbit and hare.

Other animals-squirrels, for instance- have two big front teeth for cutting, just as rabbits and hares do, but rabbit and hares have an extra pair of smaller, very sharp front teeth just behind the big ones. This extra pair of cutting teeth is one of the main features that makes rabbit and hares different from all other animals.

I hope you liked those facts about rabbit and hares! See you next time!


Grooming:Brushing or cleaning hair or fur.
Herbivore: Animal that eats mainly plants.



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Kevin Ping-An Tang