Domestic Rabbit

Domestic Rabbit
イエウサギ
Character Data
AKA		Bunny
Romaji		Ieusagi
Debut		Kemono Friends 3
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus
Distribution		Worldwide
Diet		Herbivore
Avg. Lifespan		5-10 years depending on the breed
Read More		Domestic rabbit
Conservation		Domesticated

Domestic Rabbit

KF3

Gallery

The Domestic Rabbit is a type of rabbit Friend that was first featured in Kemono Friends 3.

Appearance

Domestic Rabbit has short, light brown hair with two small "twin tails" at the sides of her head, and sports a white streak running down her front bangs. She has a pair of rabbit ears atop her head, and a rabbit's tail at her rear. Her eyes are a very dark brown.

Domestic Rabbit wears a light brown and white dress with small pockets at her hips and a dark brown fur trim at the bottom hem. She wears a small light-brown halter-style top over the dress, which sports a gold brooch in the middle. She accents this with a black ribbon tie, brown calf-height socks, white shoes and gloves, and a white bow atop her head accented by two smaller brown bows on each side of her head which tie off the aforementioned "twin tails".

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role
2019	Kemono Friends 3	↪ Minor playable character

In Real Life

The domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) is the domesticated form of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Humans are believed to have maintained rabbits for food purposes for thousands of years, with the earliest records of rabbit-keeping dating to the first century AD and records of cross-breeding occurring as early as the 12th century AD. As a result of centuries of selective breeding, the domestic rabbit has taken on a great variety of coat patterns, fur types, body sizes and builds, ear lengths, temperaments, and more; domestic rabbits range in size from the 1.1–2.5 lb seen in the excitable Netherland Dwarf breed, to the 14–25 lb of the docile Flemish Giant breed—the largest not only among domestic rabbits, but among all lagomorphs.

Domestic rabbits are very popular pets, much in the same vein as domestic cats or dogs, due to their generally agreeable temperament, playfulness, and appearance; unlike these other house pets, domestic rabbits have particular habitation and dietary requirements. Because rabbits are known to habitually chew on objects and surfaces in their environments, their pens or spaces must be free of anything that could harm them if damaged or ingested, such as electrical cords or carpeted flooring. Domestic rabbits can be feed with hay grasses such as alfalfa, leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, and specially-made rabbit food which often incorporates ingredients such as the aforementioned hay grass along with vitamins and minerals.

Due to their docile nature, most domestic rabbits do not fare well outside of captivity, with their docile nature and slower movement speed putting them at an elevated risk of predation and, in some potential cases, a reliance on human-sourced food leading to starvation, in the event that a rabbit does not know how to identify wild food sources for itself. This leads to a reduced risk of feral domestic rabbits becoming invasive species as compared to their wild cousins, but the potential for domestic rabbits to become invasive or to interbreed with wild European rabbits has been demonstrated in the past—including in Australia, where invasive European rabbit populations already cause immense ecological destruction. In accordance with this, the state of Queensland has maintained a full ban on pet rabbit ownership since at least 2014.

Trivia

• In popular culture, rabbits are frequently associated with, and are depicted as commonly eating, carrots. In truth, rabbits presented with carrots only typically eat the soft leafy green parts of the vegetable, while ignoring the tougher orange root.
• The domestic rabbit breed with the longest ears is the English Lop, which sports floppy ears that can reach lengths of nearly 31.5 in (80 cm).