1. Domain behavior
Petsnet tells everyone that territoriality is the nature of rabbits and will use their own fecal pellets And urine accumulation was used as a method to divide the territory; rabbits with strong territory or in estrus showed stronger territory behavior, and the territory behavior of male rabbits was generally stronger than that of female rabbits.
2. Fighting behavior
If two male rabbits are kept together for a lot, there will be fights. Because male rabbits are more territorial, it is best not to raise two male rabbits at the same time. Male rabbits, to avoid comedy; when two female rabbits are raised together, fighting may also occur, but it is not as intense as male rabbits. As long as one of them admits defeat, the fight will stop.
3. Aggressive behavior
Rabbits in captivity rarely attack others unless they are female rabbits with offspring or are more neurotic. And issued a slight snoring, and more will not cause injury.
4. Rodent behavior
Rabbit incisors grow fast. If the incisors are often fed with feed that does not need to be cut off, when the incisors grow faster than the wear rate, it will hinder the feeding and also cause the rabbits to suffer. Uneasy, and bite foreign objects, so the rabbit house (cage) material should be durable.
5. Night feeding behavior
Rabbits are accustomed to be active at night and like to feed at night. The feed intake at night accounts for more than 70% of the feed intake in the whole day. Rabbits have no night grass and no fat.
6. Coprophagous behavior
Healthy rabbits usually excrete two kinds of excrement, the granular hard excrement during the daytime is called Japanese excrement pellets and Japanese excrement pellets are hard and therefore It is said that hard feces discharge lumps of soft feces at night, and it is called night feces and night feces are softer, and also called soft feces, which contain undigested nutrients. When you eat it back, because the food you eat passes through the action of symbiotic bacteria in the cecum, the night fecal pellets discharged at night contain not only 37.4% of incompletely digested protein and 13.1% of minerals, but also rich in vitamin B group.
7. Foot-snapping behavior
After the rabbit is refreshed or frightened, the two hind limbs hit the floor or the bottom of the cage at the same time, especially in the more neurotic rabbits, it is more rare; After mating, rabbits will also make noises under normal circumstances.
8. Pregnancy-specific behavior
After pregnancy, female rabbits have a docile temperament, stable actions, and increased appetite. After eating, it will lie down and rest, and the abdomen will gradually increase. The appetite of the pregnant female rabbit will decrease; about 2-3 days before giving birth, the chest hair will be pulled down and laid in the cage. This nesting action continues until labor, and a lot of hair pulling will appear. 3-5 hours before giving birth. This kind of nesting action is a feature of the near-partum period. If there is a rattle in the late pregnancy, the rabbit will listen carefully, which shows that the female rabbit needs a quiet environment before giving birth.