Talk:Rabbit

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Polyamorph talk 12:39, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

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A desert cottontail rabbit using its ears to cool down

• ... that rabbits (example pictured) can control their body temperature with their ears?

• Source: Donnelly, Thomas M.; Vella, David (2020). "Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Husbandry of Rabbits". In Quesenberry, Katherine; Orcutt, Connie J.; Mans, Christoph; Carpenter, James W. (eds.). Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery (4th ed.). pp. 131–149. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-48435-0.00011-3. ISBN 978-0-323-48435-0. The pinnae are highly vascular and have the largest arteriovenous shunts in the body. At rest, the pinna of leporids is a thermoregulatory organ.

• ALT1: ... that rabbits (example pictured) have nearly a 360° field of vision and blink only a few times per hour, but can't see anything below their mouth? Source: Peiffer, Robert L.; Pohm-Thorsen, Laurie; Corcoran, Kelly (1994), "Models in Ophthalmology and Vision Research", The Biology of the Laboratory Rabbit, Elsevier, pp. 409–433, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-469235-0.50025-7, ISBN 978-0-12-469235-0, PMC 7149682, retrieved 2024-10-10, By moving the eyes and tilting the head upward the rabbit can achieve a maximum field of vision of almost 360°. Donnelly, Thomas M.; Vella, David (2020). "Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Husbandry of Rabbits". In Quesenberry, Katherine; Orcutt, Connie J.; Mans, Christoph; Carpenter, James W. (eds.). Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery (4th ed.). pp. 131–149. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-48435-0.00011-3. ISBN 978-0-323-48435-0. However, their eyes cannot visualize the small area beneath the mouth (blind spot), and rabbits depend on the sensitivity of the lips and vibrissae for food discrimination. [...] rabbits rarely make spontaneous blinks (2–4 per hour).
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ansorge Hotel
• Comment: Other rabbit facts can be provided.

Improved to Good Article status by Reconrabbit (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Reconrabbit 15:22, 10 October 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Congrats on getting this highly important, million-qualifying article to GA status! Everything looks good to go for this DYK, including quite interesting factoids. My only suggestion would be to add an image — people always like rabbit pics ! Sdkb ^talk 16:44, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

I've added an image that works for the first hook. Reconrabbit 17:27, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

on protection stuff blurring the border between technical and inconsequential

this likely won't matter much for a ga, but hasn't the trial the article got indefinitely semi-protected for kinda been over for at least 13 years by now? if still better left protected, i think the rationale should at the very least be updated~ consarn _{(prison phone) (crime record)} 11:16, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

why not ask on WP:RFPU? Protecting admin is retired. Reconrabbit 21:19, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Mechanism, not method

It seem more adequate to talk about a mechanism and not a method of spreading wilfired. Please change this. Ishike (talk) 15:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 March 2025

Change 200 million tons to 2 million tons under the food section. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rabbit/GA1#As_food_and_clothing for the reasoning why the 200 million ton number is likely a mistake. Mherreshoff (talk) 13:57, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Corrected; it would be ideal if a better source was available for these statistics. Reconrabbit 19:38, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

I found a more recent source here stating that 756,476 tonnes were produced worldwide in 2022 (noted as "15.1 % less than in the previous year and -65.9 % less than 10 years ago"), citing FAOSTAT data.

Checking FAOSTAT's database here, by filtering "World + (Total)" in Regions, "Production Quantity" in Elements, "Meat of rabbits and hares, fresh or chilled" in Items, and "2022" for Years, I got an estimated value of 756,438.35 t (slightly different from the former source). Checking previous years, it does seem like there has been a large and consistent decrease in rabbit meat production over the past ten years if we trust FAOSTAT's estimates. Yiosie 2356 07:55, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Kosher? Halal?

the article on hares goes into this, but not the one on rabbits? 2607:FEA8:FF01:4FA6:CC28:F4B0:F2B4:1BB0 (talk) 22:33, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

The article on hares states that, but the reference doesn't say anything about it. I don't know how to look these things up because various sources say rabbit is kosher, some say it is not, and many say rabbits and hares are the same thing. I imagine they fall under the same laws as rock hyrax but can't say for sure. Reconrabbit 16:44, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Fix Peter Warne typo

Please change Peter Wayne to Peter Warne in the Modern Times section. This seems to be a typo: the character is listed as Peter Warne on both the Wikipedia page It Happened One Night and IMDB. OvercomeWithFright (talk) 09:53, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Fix Doxycycline typo

Please change docycycline to doxycycline. OvercomeWithFright (talk) 10:19, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Just took care of both of your requests! -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 11:28, 10 March 2025 (UTC)