Rabbits

Written and Illustrated By:Monica Guerrero

2nd Grade 2012

Rabbits

Written and Illustrated By:Monica Guerrero2nd Grade 2012

Thompson Publishing Company, Inc., Copyright 2012

For My Mom, Dad, and My Two

Brothers:Israel & Alex

Table of ContentsRabbit Facts 2 – 4

Rabbit’s Habitat 5

Rabbit’s Diet 6

Rabbit’s Life Cycle 7

Rabbit’s Diagram 8

Glossary 9

References 10

Rabbit Photos 11 1

Rabbit Facts

Rabbits are furry animals with long ears and short fluffy, tails. Rabbits do not walk or run as most other four-legged animals do. Rabbits move by hopping on it’s hind legs, which are longer and stronger than it’s front legs. Rabbits can run as fast as 18 mph.

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Rabbit Facts (continued)

Many children have pet rabbits. Pet stores sell tame rabbits that have been raised as pets. An adult, wild rabbit grows 8 to 14 inches long and weighs 2 to 5 pounds. A rabbit’s eyes are on the sides of it’s head. This helps the rabbit to see things behind or to the side better than the front. Rabbits can move it’s long ears to catch faint sounds from any direction. Rabbits have a pair of small teeth behind the upper front teeth. 3

Rabbit Facts (continued)

There are two chief kinds of rabbits: cottontails and European rabbits. Men have hunted rabbits for meat and for skins. Rabbit skins are used for making fur coats. The long fur of angora rabbits is spun into soft, warm, yarn used for sweaters.

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Rabbit’s Habitat

Most rabbits make their homes in fields and prairies where they can hide their young under bushes or among tall grasses.

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Rabbit’s Diet

Most rabbits eat and play from dusk to dawn and spend the rest of the day sleeping and resting. Rabbits eat many kinds ofplants including clover, grass, and weeds. In the winter, they eattwigs, bark and fruit of bushes and trees.

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Rabbit’s Life Cycle

A female rabbit usually has four or five young at a time, andmay give birth several times every year. Rabbits in the southernUnited States, where the weather is warm most of the year, may have babies more than five times a year. In the northernpart of the country, rabbits may give birth two to four times between April and September.

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Rabbit Diagram

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Glossary

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angora – refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora Rabbit and is known for it’s softnesscottontails – rabbits among the 16 lagomorph species in the genus Sylvilagusclover – grows freely shooting up after repeated mowings and grows at a great range of climates and nutritious for livestock dusk – twilight, sunset, sundown, nightfalldawn – daybreak, sunrise, daylightfluffy – soft and light as fluff, feathery, fuzzy, light and airyprairies – plain grassland

References

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Websites http:/animals.about.com/od/rabbits/a/rabbits-facts.htm

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature

http://www.enchanted.com

www.google images.com

http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/rabbits/facts.html

Books101 Facts About Rabbits, Julia Barnes

Rabbits, JoAnn Early Macken

Rabbit Photos

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