# What's a bunnyq?

*a wh*

By [bunnyq.eth](https://paragraph.com/@bunnyq.eth) · 2022-10-25

---

**Rabbits**, also known as **bunnies** or **bunny rabbits**, are small [mammals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal) in the [family](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_\(biology\)) [Leporidae](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporidae) (which also contains the [hares](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare)) of the [order](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_\(biology\)) [Lagomorpha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha) (which also contains the [pikas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika)). _Oryctolagus cuniculus_ includes the [European rabbit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_rabbit) species and its descendants, the world's [305 breeds](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rabbit_breeds)[\[1\]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit#cite_note-DAD-IS_2017-1) of [domestic rabbit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_rabbit). _Sylvilagus_ includes 13 wild rabbit species, among them the seven types of [cottontail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottontail_rabbit). The European rabbit, which has been introduced on every continent except Antarctica, is familiar throughout the world as a wild prey animal and as a domesticated form of livestock and pet. With its widespread effect on ecologies and cultures, the rabbit is, in many areas of the world, a part of daily life—as food, clothing, a companion, and a source of artistic inspiration.

Although once considered rodents, lagomorphs like rabbits have been discovered to have diverged separately and earlier than their rodent cousins and have a number of traits rodents lack, like two extra incisors.

Q.

---

*Originally published on [bunnyq.eth](https://paragraph.com/@bunnyq.eth/whats-a-bunnyq)*