Exotic Questions - Rabbits

Question 1

What percentage body weight does the rabbit skeleton weigh?

Answer 1

7-8%

Question 2

What is the rabbit prone to when they kick out their hind legs?

Answer 2

Damage to their back such as fractured vertebrae and hindlegs

Question 3

Is the mandible or maxilla narrower on the rabbit?

Answer 3

The mandible

Question 4

How does a rabbits jaw move?

Answer 4

they have a tempero-madibular joint which has a wide surface area, allowing lateral movement of the mandible in relation to the maxilla

Question 5

What is narrow and positioned vertically in the rabbit?

Answer 5

the Pelvis

Question 6

What is the extra accessory bone called in the pelvis?

Answer 6

Is acetabuli

Question 7

The scapula is a triangle shape and has a hooked process which projects caudally. What is this process?

Answer 7

Suprahamate process

Question 8

Which bones fuse together in the rabbits forelimb?

Answer 8

The radius and the ulna

Question 9

How many toes does the guinea pig have in the forelimb and the hindlimb

Answer 9

4 in the forelimb

3 in the hindlimb

Question 10

The teeth in the rabbit grow all the time. What are the teeth classed as?

Answer 10

Open

Question 11

Rabbits have two small incisors behind the normal incisors. What are they called?

Answer 11

Peg Teeth

Question 12

Rodents have a gap where the canine teeth are in a dog or a cat. What are these called?

Answer 12

A diastema

Question 13

The premolars and molars also have another name. What is this?

Answer 13

Cheek teeth

Question 14

In the digestive tract, what is it impossible for a rabbit to do?

Answer 14

Vomit

Question 15

The small intestine has 3 sections. Name them in order

Answer 15

Duodenum, jejunum & ilium

Question 16

What shape is the caecum?

Answer 16

Spiral shape

Question 17

What lives in the caecum to help break down the cellulose in plants?

Answer 17

Microorganisms

Question 18

What doe coprophagia mean?

Answer 18

The act of reingesting faeces. Ingested food is passed through the digestive system twice in 24 hours,

This is so the rabbit gains all required nutrients from its food

Question 19

The caecotroph contains plant material and is the first pellet passed from the anus. What colour is the pellet?

Answer 19

Green

Question 20

What percentage body weight is the digestive tract of a rabbit?

Answer 20

10-20%

Question 21

What is the term used to describe how rabbits breath?

Answer 21

Nose breathing

Question 22

If a rabbit is ill how do they breath?

Answer 22

Mouth breath

Question 23

What is the most common rabbit respiratory disease?

Answer 23

Pasturellosis

Question 24

If a rabbit is stressed or warm what happens to their breathing rate?

Answer 24

It increases

Question 25

Is rabbit urine acidic or alkaline? What crystals does it contain?

Answer 25

Alkaline like most herbivores

Crystals of calcium carbonate

Question 26

What are pigments in rabbit urine called?

Answer 26

Porphyrins

Question 27

At what age do the male rabbits testicles descend?

Answer 27

at 12 weeks of age

Question 28

What do male rabbits not have in the reproductive tract compares with a dog and cat?

Answer 28

nipples

Question 29

The female rabbit has a bicornurate uterus. What does this mean?

Answer 29

It means there are two uterine horns, each with its own cervix

Question 30

How long is the average lifespan of a rabbit?

Answer 30

3 years in the wild,

7-10 years in captivity

Question 31

What is the normal range for the rabbits temperature?

Answer 31

38.5 - 40

Question 32

What is the fold of skin called under the female rabbits chin?

Answer 32

Dewlap