Rabbits

Question 1

What is the Kingdom?

Answer 1

-Animalia

Question 2

What is the Phylum?

Answer 2

• chordata

Question 3

What is the class?

Answer 3

• Mammalia

Question 4

What is the order?

Answer 4

-Lagomorpha

Question 5

What is the family?

Answer 5

• Leporidae

Question 6

What is the Genus?

Answer 6

• Oryctolagus

Question 7

What is the species?

Answer 7

• cuniculus

Question 8

What sizes do rabbits come in ?

Answer 8

-Large, Med, small, miniature

Question 9

What are two types of rabbits?

Answer 9

-cottontails
-hares

Question 10

What are 3 common breeds used in research?

Answer 10

-dutch
-Newzealand
-flemish

Question 11

What type of diseases are they used for in research?

Answer 11

-glaucona
-asthma
- cardio disease

Question 12

What is their life span?

Answer 12

• 5 to 6 years

Question 13

What is their litter size?

Answer 13

• 4 to 10

Question 14

What is some anatomy of Rabbits?

Answer 14

•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

Question 15

What is a nictitating membrane?

Answer 15

• third eye lid

Question 16

What is Thermoregulation?

Answer 16

•Large vessels dilate to cool the circulating blood as it returns to the body

Question 17

What is there dental formula?

Answer 17

2 ( I 2/1 C 0/0 P 3/2 M 3/3)

Question 18

Can rabbits vomit?

Answer 18

-No, due to positioning of cardiac and stomach

Question 19

What are the two types of fecal pellets?

Answer 19

• •Day time: dry and firm
  •Night time: Moist nutrient rich
  •Cecotrophs

Question 20

What are they also called?

Answer 20

•Adult females
•Does
•Adult males
•Bucks
•Young rabbits
•Kits or kittens

Question 21

Do both makes and females have dewlaps?

Answer 21

• no only females

Question 22

Do they have an estrous cycle?

Answer 22

• no
  -•Does have 7-10day of receptivity
  •Followed by a short 1-2 day period where they are not receptive

Question 23

What are they more prone of getting?

Answer 23

-skeletal fractures due to heavy hind limbs

Question 24

In which ways can you administer drugs to them?

Answer 24

• orally
  -intravenous
  -intramuscular

Question 25

What type of euthanasia do they use?

Answer 25

-an overdose of barbiturate euthanasia given intravenously
-Painless, fast, easily accomplished and inexpensive

Question 26

Pasteurellosis

Answer 26

• snuffles