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I want to say yes. Although the websites I find consistently say that "bunny" refers to the rabbit (rabbit ≠ hare for the uninitiated, they are different species), they do have similar behaviors and looks. And this is not strictly a pet rabbit community, so the fact that hares are very hard to domesticate doesn't really impact what gets posted here.

However, I also think the input of people in the community is important. If people who browse and/or post on !bunnies@lemmy.world don't want hare content included then I'm not going to make the change and allow hare content.

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It's really difficult to not just title every post I make here "aww, a bunny!"

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world to c/bunnies@lemmy.world

In reference to this post about merging !bunnies@lemmy.world and !rabbits@lemmy.world.

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I found this post I made awhile ago about potentially merging the communities. Now that I actually do mod !bunnies@lemmy.world, I figured I'd do as @justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world suggested a year ago and poll both communities about how they'd prefer to handle things:

  • Stay separate, do not merge
  • Merge: move Bunnies users to Rabbits
  • Merge: move Rabbits users to Bunnies
  • Merge: move users of both communities to a single new community

You can answer the poll anonymously at this link. It closes a week from now. I'll do what the poll says once it's over.

I notice that !bunnies@lemmy.world is still active, while !rabbits@lemmy.world seems to have much sparser activity, so full disclosure: I voted for moving !rabbits@lemmy.world users to !bunnies@lemmy.world.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world to c/bunnies@lemmy.world

Will update as I become aware of more, feel free to chime in with some! Bunnies need significant screen time, to be the main thing here. Bunny bunnies included, bunny girls or bunny-people of any gender really (think human-with-bunny-ears-and-tail) excluded.

Books

  • Bunnicula series
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit and its sequel, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. There are many adaptations of this one that may or may not show up on this list.
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
  • Watership Down

Movies

  • Hop
  • Night of the Lepus, also known as Rabbits; derivative of the book The Year of the Angry Rabbit (whose % rabbit vs political commentary is unknown, unlike the movie which Wikipedia says is horror with rabbits as the monster and no politics shows up in the summary)
  • Peter Rabbit
  • Watership Down

Television

  • Miffy and Friends
  • Peter Rabbit

Video games

Miscellaneous

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Channel seems to be a goldmine for bunny content. They also put Chinese in the thumbnails and description, so if you read Chinese you're in luck!

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/24466011

I enjoy Will Quinn's daily bunnies, but it's pretty much the only thing I go onto Bluesky for.

So... I created an unofficial mirror here:

!dailybunnies@lemmings.world

dailybunnies@lemmings.world

If you're on Bluesky give them a follow there as well please, and have a look at my Daily Bunnies custom feed

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"eating,we just like eat" (www.youtube.com)
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bunny eating strawberry (www.youtube.com)
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Saw this on a pole while on a walk, figured it looked like a bunny.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world to c/bunnies@lemmy.world

TL;DR:

    1. Give them somewhere they can hide and take shelter. This doesn't necessarily mean construction with wood and hammers, it can be growing a bush, leaving sticks and brush piles around, or letting grass grow tall.
    1. Plant stuff they like to eat. Lettuce, carrots, clover, raspberries, blackberries; stuff with bark during the winter.
    1. Give them water to drink.
    1. Help them stay safe from predators. Item 1, giving shelter, is probably the best you can do for wild predators. Dogs and cats also prey on rabbits. Article says to keep cats indoors, and use a fence to keep dogs in a certain area because rabbits are smart enough to know they'll be safe due to the fence.

And because it is a TL;DR of the article, article also reminds people about neighbors that may not want rabbits around, especially in case the rabbits eat things they are growing, and that they might take various actions to repel rabbits, counteracting your efforts. Matters way less if you have a big area or are far away from your neighbors—if rabbits coming to your place won't necessarily mean they have a good chance to visit your neighbor too.

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Very sleepy rabbit (www.youtube.com)
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Transcript: An image of a skeleton squatting a 200kg weight, accompanied by the text MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS BUNNIES INTO KISSED BUNNIES.

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!voidbunnies@lemmy.world

Thought people might want to know. I literally just found out about this community. It currently has been inactive for 2 years, but if anyone finds void bunnies…

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I personally found this entertaining, but if stuffed animal bunnies are not what !bunnies@lemmy.world wants to see, let me know and I'll delete this

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Thought I'd change it up a bit from the pictures and videos I have been posting.

For many, having a rabbit occasionally hop through the lot is a valuable experience.

I've never felt more validated by an academic article in my entire life.

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Bunny vs Dinner Bowl (www.youtube.com)
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Gangsta Bunny (youtube.com)
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Post bunny pics, post questions about rabbits, almost anything rabbit or hare-related goes (whether wild or domestic).

Other than that, rules should be pretty obvious: be nice, no bigotry/discrimination, stay on topic, etc.

Not officially affiliated with any rabbit subreddits.

House Rabbit Society is overall a fantastic resource on pet rabbits: info on diets, health, vet care, adopting bunnies, and behavior.

List of fictional works about bunnies

Other bunny communities on the Fediverse:

As of now, if you follow all 4 bunny communities (the above 3 plus this one), you will see little to no post overlap/crossposting, so you can safely follow all 4 without getting your feed spammed with several copies of the same bunny.

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