The Life of the Rabbit (1945)

[@victorhunt5788]

The rabbit is described as an inedible rodent . The rabbit was not a rodent nor was it inedible it was enjoyed by many as meat particularly after harvesting the wheat. Many young London evacuees in the country never ever realised what they ate.

[@Mr23385047]

after ww2 i used to go to liverpool street station from croydon in a ex american army lorry to pick up hundreds of dead rabbits brought down from norfolk as meat was still on ration on the way back he used to stuff 3 rabbits up my jumper and drop me off near were we lived to take home to my mother

[@FrancisMarcosGaming]

so people in england used to eat dead rabbits?

[@kennyharris2407]

​@@FrancisMarcosGaming What did you think, that we were Savages and ate them Alive...🤣

[@alexleonardmusic]

The film is incorrect. The rabbit is NOT in the rodent family, but rather a lagomorph.

[@silviatrujillano1719]

Indeed

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

They also failed to mention that there are rabbits native to the Americas as well.

[@relathan1]

@@KFrost-fx7dt I was surprised at that as well. Maybe the confusion was due to the fact that cottontails don't dig burrows but have shallow nests like hares. And "rodents"? I don't think so!

[@kokichikinnie2309]

Frederickewing well you have to understand this was 1945, they didn’t know

[@mattgraham6348]

Fredrickwing know one care what you think or what say

[@patrickd.3681]

Raise your hand if “Watership Down” comes to mind.

[@silviatrujillano1719]

Yesss!

[@CarmyWolf]

✋ yep

[@theotheseaeagle]

Yes very dark!

[@mattgraham6348]

@@theotheseaeagle Oi Oi snowflake alert

[@stephenvince9994]

Well it should . Richard Adams used this study as an informed backdrop to the writing of the Watership Down.

[@NovaRuner]

so young rabbits leave home and fend for them selves at about one month old? wow they grow up fast.

[@mayhampson4896]

The young of to day are not very knowledgeable about the past ,or the present . We still can buy rabbits in our shops to day to eat , they are not pets ,but food to eat . I remember my Mother making a rabbit stew, It taste just like chicken ,In years to come people will look back ,and say ,You ate chickens ,how awful,

[@kennyharris2407]

Rabbits are also Pets...

[@veenadevi7922]

3:03 A smart rabbit do that 👏 and SPEED RUNNER EVER

[@FrancisMarcosGaming]

i think i have finally learned how to take care of rabbits

[@RoboRabbit444]

i get people who kill bunnys for Food or something they need but not for fun!

[@KlunkerRider]

That's no ordinary rabbit...

[@SoJustCool]

i thought 10:59 was another part of their underground home

[@avacollins7595]

Rabbits arent rodents actually..

[@KaiserUnique]

They used to be classified as rodents, this documentary is now outdated

[@longfootbuddy]

neither are people, but i still call them that sometimes

[@Faasnadsu]

Very nicely presented

[@mohammadalibraheem1204]

Thank you

[@phuchuynhhuu1300]

Great, thanks !

[@MohdMustakimKamarudin]

THANK YOU

[@dr.ruchikatoch2485]

VERY NICE

[@OurHumbleLife]

Nice. Thank you

[@Libaluff]

This video is very heavily biased against the rabbit.

[@mrbushlied7742]

A rabbit is not a rodent! Rabbits are in the Lagomorpha order of mammals, whilst rodents are in the Rodentia order

[@rayrumming7901]

My Grandfather was known as Bunny Rumming as my ancestors were poor living in the Wiltshire countryside. So he was a master at catching rabbits, its the only meat they ate apart from poaching pheasant. My Grandfather told my Father, My Father told me i told my two Daughters and my seven Grandchildren for them hopefully to tell there Children this rhyme. A Rabbits a Rabbit,a Bunnies a Bunny, If you lift up its tail you see something funny.Not many Rumming left now as i had two Daughters.

[@mattgraham6348]

and your sad

[@jazzbo13]

A rabbit's a rabbit. A bunny's a bunny. If you lift up it's tail, you see something funny. Yeah, it's bollocks!

[@Anime9100]

Sounds like the 4th Doctor

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

Sorry but I've shot and killed thousands of them over the years but still have respect for them, I have them as pets my kids love them too, I breed them as a child but as I grew up I spent most of my childhood on farms and we had to do a lot of vermin control and that's what I did as a part of my job, I'm also gunsmith but did vermin control for my grandads farm and other farmers, as it's law for farmers to keep them under control on land they own and they do a lot of damage, but still always love watching them and all the other wildlife, I suppose what I'm trying to say is things like this has to be done but I get a lot of people saying that it wrong and I'm cruel and evil, it is what it is but that doesn't make me a monster and I can still love my wildlife, I also protect badgers and deer and fox I will not shoot what does not need to be shot, life is a somewhat strange balance between these types of things as it's in my blood and apart of my way of life as a vermin controller, just thought I'd try and get others to understand we not all just shooting for the sake of it, it's a fine line that some don't understand.

[@radicalcartoons2766]

Hardly any rabbits in the English countryside now. I go on long walks in Somerset and the Mendips. Places where 30 years ago, you would be tripping over rabbits, there's now no evidence of them at all. No burrows, no droppings. I see more Hares than rabbits now.

[@kennyharris2407]

Probably Foxes and dogs, plus more people.

[@mayettaxtriger436]

the person picking up the babies isnt to gentle,

[@bonbonbonniebunny4225]

I lov drawing

[@longfootbuddy]

kind of pitiful that i was searching for a doc on life of wild rabbits and all i could really find was this vintage one, a modern kind o typically not that great brit doc, that was mixed with other ground animals, annoyingly in a scientific, zoo like setting, in the typical normal style now days where they go from one 'story' or animal for a bit, then to the next for a bit, then the next for a bit, then back to rabbits for a bit, then continue that stupid cycle throughout.. and then i found tons of pet bunny vids and farm bunny stuff.. and tons of cartoons

[@bwghall1]

you need veg and some fat (pork) maybe. to have a balanced meal of rabbit. read how Australia fencers died by just eating Rabbit. 85 year old Wiltshire/Dorset man.

[@risquerabbitthehomespa9356]

A rabbit eat my familys crops and my little brother starved to death.

[@kawaiisenshi2401]

Kewlll