Rabbits

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), cottontail rabbits (genus Sylvilagus; 13 species), and the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi, an endangered species on Amami Ōshima, Japan). There are many other species of rabbit, and these, along with pikas and hares, make up the order Lagomorpha. The male is called a buck and the female is a doe; a young rabbit is a kitten or kit.

Bunny is a colloquial name for a rabbit.

Quotes

• Donnie Darko:  Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
  Frank:  Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
  • Donnie Darko (2001).

• A certain man had one pair of rabbits together in a certain enclosed place, and one wishes to know how many are created from the pair in one year when it is the nature of them in a single month to bear another pair, and in the second month those born to bear also.  Because the abovewritten pair in the first month bore, you will double it; there will be two pairs in one month.  One of these, namely the first, bears in the second month, and thus there are in the second month 3 pairs; of these in one month two are pregnant, and in the third month 2 pairs of rabbits are born, and thus there are 5 pairs in the month; in this month 3 pairs are pregnant, and in the fourth month there are 8 pairs, of which 5 pairs bear another 5 pairs; these are added to the 8 pairs making 13 pairs in the fifth month; these 5 pairs that are born in this month do not mate in this month, but another 8 pairs are pregnant, and thus there are in the sixth month 21 pairs; to these are added the 13 pairs that are born in the seventh month; there will be 34 pairs in this month; to this are added the 21 pairs that are born in the eighth month; there will be 55 pairs in this month; to these are added the 34 pairs that are born in the ninth month; there will be 89 pairs in this month; to these are added again the 55 pairs that are born in the tenth month; there will be 144 pairs in this month; to these are added again the 89 pairs that are born in the eleventh month; there will be 233 pairs in this month.  To these are still added the 144 pairs that are born in the last month; there will be 377 pairs, and this many pairs are produced from the abovewritten pair in the mentioned place at the end of the one year.  You can indeed see in the margin how we operated, namely that we added the first number to the second, namely the 1 to the 2, and the second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and the fourth to the fifth, and thus one after another until we added the tenth to the eleventh, namely the 144 to the 233, and we had the abovewritten sum of rabbits, namely 377, and thus you can in order find it for an unending number of months.
  • Leonardo Fibonacci, Liber abbaci (1202), translated by Laurence E. Sigler: This is Fibonacci's explanation of the Fibonacci numbers. 

• If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.
  • Mitch Hedberg, Strategic Grill Locations

• Tim the Enchanter:  There he is!
  King Arthur:  Where?
  Tim:  There!
  King Arthur:  What?  Behind the rabbit?
  Tim:  It is the rabbit!
  King Arthur:  You silly sod!
  Tim:  What?
  King Arthur:  You got us all worked up!
  Tim:  Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
  King Arthur:  Ohh.
  Tim:  That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
  Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot:  You tit!  I soiled my armor I was so scared!
  Tim:  Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide!  It's a killer!
  Sir Galahad the Pure:  Get stuffed!
  Tim:  He'll do you up a treat, mate.
  Sir Galahad:  Oh, yeah?
  Sir Robin:  You manky Scots git!
  Tim:  I'm warning you!
  Sir Robin:  What's he do?  Nibble your bum?
  Tim:  He's got huge, sharp... er...  He can leap about.  Look at the bones!
  King Arthur:  Go on, Bors.  Chop his head off!
  Sir Bors:  Right!  Silly little bleeder.  One rabbit stew comin' right up!
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).

• A bear and a rabbit were taking a shit in the woods.  The bear turns to the rabbit and says, "Excuse me, do you have problems with shit sticking to your fur?"  And the rabbit says, "No."  So the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit.
  • Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy Delirious (1983).

• If you give a rabbit a carrot with the green top still on it, it will disregard the carrot part and eat just the top. It'll be like, "What's this orange shit?"
  • Mohammed Shariff, "5 Ridiculous Animal Myths That You Probably Believe" (7 November 2011), Cracked

• And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil.  One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear.  And terror possesed me then.  And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"  And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!  You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."  And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light!  They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!  Damn you!  Let the rabbits wear glasses!  Save our brothers!"
  • Tool, "Disgustipated," Undertow (1993).

• Does anyone know an effective way of keeping rabbits out of a garden that does not involve building a fence? I have tried that already, but the rabbit will not sit still long enough for me to get the fence all the way around him.
  • Gene Wolfe, "From a Chain letter to George R. R. Martin and Greg Benford", 10 July 1982; as published in Castle of Days (1992)