Rabit: Rabbits are social animals

Rabbits are social animals, with colonies of the fluffy mammal occupying most of the world’s land masses. The word rabbit derives from the Middle English rabet ("young of the coney"), a borrowing from the Walloon robète, which was a diminutive of the French or Middle Dutch robbe (" rabbit "), a term of unknown origin. [1] The term coney is a term for an adult rabbit used until the 18th century; rabbit once referred only to the young animals. [2] More recently, the term kit or kitten has been used to refer to a young rabbit . [3][4] The endearing word bunny is attested by the 1680s as a diminutive ... Rabbit , any of 29 species of long-eared mammals belonging to the family Leporidae, excluding hares (genus Lepus). Rabbits are ground dwellers whose habitat ranges from deserts to tropical forests and wetlands. Rabbits differ from hares in size, life history, and preferred habitat.