Rabbits Flashcards
What is the Kingdom?
-Animalia
What is the Phylum?
- chordata
What is the class?
- Mammalia
What is the order?
-Lagomorpha
What is the family?
- Leporidae
What is the Genus?
- Oryctolagus
What is the species?
- cuniculus
What sizes do rabbits come in ?
-Large, Med, small, miniature
What are two types of rabbits?
-cottontails
-hares
What are 3 common breeds used in research?
-dutch
-Newzealand
-flemish
What type of diseases are they used for in research?
-glaucona
-asthma
- cardio disease
What is their life span?
- 5 to 6 years
What is their litter size?
- 4 to 10
What is some anatomy of Rabbits?
•Five digits on the forelimbs, four digits on the hindlimbs
•No footpads
•Completely fur covered
•Toenails grow rapidly
•Chin, anal and inguinal glands
•Territorial marking
What is a nictitating membrane?
- third eye lid
What is Thermoregulation?
•Large vessels dilate to cool the circulating blood as it returns to the body
What is there dental formula?
2 ( I 2/1 C 0/0 P 3/2 M 3/3)
Can rabbits vomit?
-No, due to positioning of cardiac and stomach
What are the two types of fecal pellets?
- •Day time: dry and firm
•Night time: Moist nutrient rich
•Cecotrophs
What are they also called?
•Adult females
•Does
•Adult males
•Bucks
•Young rabbits
•Kits or kittens
Do both makes and females have dewlaps?
- no only females
Do they have an estrous cycle?
- no
-•Does have 7-10day of receptivity
•Followed by a short 1-2 day period where they are not receptive
What are they more prone of getting?
-skeletal fractures due to heavy hind limbs
In which ways can you administer drugs to them?
- orally
-intravenous
-intramuscular
