Friday, January 23, 2009

5,4,3,2,1 Cotton Tail Rabbit

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  • Cotton tail rabbits are usually brown fur an the back and head, bright white fur and chest and belly, it's ears are long and stand straight up, it's eyes bulge, their nose is always wiggling, ant they weigh 2-3 pounds, and 18 inches.
  • Cotton tails only want to have cover and they get this from hedgerows, thickets, meadows, backyards, marshes, and farmlands.
  • All that Rabbits eat are greens, like grass, flowers, herbs, berries, and there are a few other things that fall under this category.
  • There was an experiment done where different repellents were used to see which works to see what one on the cabbage they wouldn't eat, but none of them would work.
  • In an experiment they saw that the rabbits would prefer to eat crabgrass over any other type of greenery.

4 questions

  • How are animals domesticated like rabbits so that they can become house pets?
  • Are rabbits used in experiments captured rabbits or are they domesticated rabbits?
  • How do scientist keep track of what the rabbit eats when they aren't there to watch them at all times?
  • Why do male animals need to show their dominance by fighting and showing who is the strongest rabbit in the rabbit community?

3 vocabulary

  • Hedgerows: a row of bushes, shrubs, etc
  • Fervently: intense
  • Coprophagy: eating ones own excerment

2 literary

  • "I could scarcely believe my eyes when the rabbit continued up the path" (pg. 43)
  • "During courtship" (pg. 49)

1 overview

  • This was about rabbits, what they eat, where they live, how they breed, and a lot about baby rabbits and how they grow up, also their predators.

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