[Homestead] Wild Rabbits
Wendy
crazygardens at verizon.net
Sun Sep 23 16:24:24 EDT 2007
I don't know about reproduction, but they sure like to hang out together.
However, it would not surprise me if a bunch of domestic rabbits eventually
reverted to a wild-like agouti coloring so that identification became
difficult. Perhaps that is what you are seeing at your place rather than a
hybridization.
Wendy
>
>> I have domestic rabbits and a few got loose and have formed a
>> "wild" warren that consists of the domestics and a few extra wild ladies.
>>
>
> I could have sworn that I was seeing some of the posterity of domestic
> rabbits that had gotten loose years before. But domestic rabbits and
> American wild
> rabbits aren't the same species (in fact, they aren't even the same
> genus),
> they don't have the same number of chromozomes and so can't interbreed.
>
> James </HTML>
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