...of having a scientific interest in rabbit behavior. Everybody wants to know what I am doing having rabbits---"I mean, is it a business?" It could be If you looked at it that way, but the return profit margin is pretty pathetic as in non-existent. Yep, it could be looked at as a business. I mean why am I doing this? Here comes the myth, here comes the fiction: I am doing it because...I am an amateur naturalist, because I am a rabbit breeder, because I really, really like rabbits---you see what I mean? There are all of these possible layers of interpretation but in fact what I am doing when I am really doing what it is that I love to be doing, is to purely "observe' rabbit behavior. Next we look at rabbit behavior.
Rabbit Behavior 101
Granted everything I say here is speculative for the same reason as above...When I catch myself drifting into narrative mythification as I observe rabbit behavior, catching myself at that moment starting to tell as story or "understand" the rabbit behavior. After all I am a mammal. Yes, some of my "interpretations" concerning rabbit behavior may be 'incorrect'---but maternal behavior is fairly specific to mammals---feeding/milking, nestbuilding, affection, territorial boundaries, participation in the larger 'tribe'. For example, aunts will readily befriend kits where they would fight for the same territory with peers. This I have observed many, many times. The bucks are another story!
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