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Subject: [nafex] Off-topic: rabbits
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:51:34 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
A little-known fact is that rabbits are not rodents. When the rabbit genome
was compared to other species, it was found that rabbits are actually more
closely related to humans than to rodents. This was published in Nature a
few years ago.
I was surprised and intrigued. Explains a lot of rabbit behavior, though