Interesting Rabbit Facts

• The world record for the rabbit high jump is 1 meter.  
• The world record for the record long jump is 3 meters. That's over 9 feet!
• The largest litter of baby rabbits is 24. It has happened twice.  Once in 1978 and again in 1999.
• The longest ears are 31.125 inches long. They belong to an American rabbit, Nipper's Geronimo.
• The longest-lived rabbit was nearly 19 years old when he died.
• Biggest bunny: 26 lbs., 7 oz.!
• A rabbit has 18 toenails: 4 on each of the back feet, and 5 on each of the front.
• Rabbits have a tiny "peg" tooth behind each incisor.
• The smallest wild rabbit breed in North American is the Pygmy or Little Idaho rabbit, which weighs slightly less than one pound.



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• There are over 150 different rabbit coat colors, but only 5 eye colors (brown, blue-grey, blue, marbled, and pink).
• President Lincoln allowed his sons to keep many pets in the White House, including pet rabbits.
• Rabbits are most active at dawn and dusk.
• Female rabbits have two lobes to their uterus.  Though not advisable, rabbits can carry two litters of different gestational ages at the same time.
• Rabbits are lagomorphs, not rodents. They are related to hares and pikas.
• Rabbits can see behind them without turning their heads.
• Rabbits are not indigenous to Australia.
• Rabbits were released on deserted islands to give shipwrecked sailors a food source until they could be rescued.