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First Answer: Hare (Hares and jackrabbits, leporids belonging to the genus Lepus)

More Information: Actually, hares and rabbits are not the same animal. Rabbits are leporids, like hares, meaning they both belong to the Leporidae family. There are 12 genera in the family Leporidae: members of the Lepus genus are hares, while all the other genera are made up of rabbits.

There are many different species of wild rabbit all over the world, like:

  • Amami rabbit in Japan
  • Riverine rabbit in South Africa
  • Bunyoro rabbit in central Africa
  • the Striped rabbits (two species: Sumatran and Annamite) in Southeast Asia
  • European rabbit, which is native to the western Mediterranean region (Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria), but has been introduced into the wild in many places, like the UK and Australia
  • Tapeti in Central and South America
  • Dice's Cottontail in Costa Rica and Panama
  • the Volcano rabbit, Omilteme Cottontail, Mexican Cottontail, and Tres Marias Cottontail in Mexico
  • and the many rabbits of North America: Pygmy rabbit, Brush rabbit, San Jose Brush rabbit, Swamp rabbit, Marsh rabbit, Eastern cottontail, New England cottontail, Mountain cottontail, and the Desert cottontail

Only one species of rabbit, the European Rabbit, has been domesticated. All domestic breeds of rabbit were bred from the European Rabbit.

Wild rabbits are herbivores, and they eat the plants local to their region. They live in large communities (called warrens). They dig tunnels and burrows underground to live in (also called warrens). As they graze, they perform the valuable service of cutting back growth and fertilising the plants their feces. Rabbits are food for pretty much any predator that can catch them (including foxes, stoats, hawks, racoons, bobcats, and humans).

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