It is also a world where strength is paramount. The strongest male is dominant over all other males in a pecking order down to the weakest. During breeding season the strongest has his pick of the females and may occasionally select them all. The female hierarchy is comparable, with the dominant female having her choice of the males. The dominant pair, in turn, have first pick of the best burrows in the warren and the choicest feeding spots in the home territory.
Rabbits are strict herbivores and capable of eating almost every plant within reach.
Like all herbivores, they have developed adaptations to extract the most nutrients from their food. One of these is the ingestion of certain fecal pellets produced once or twice a day, enabling the rabbit to extract more nutrients from food that already has passed through the gut. They swallow these pellets whole as humans would vitamin tablets. In Australia, five rabbits can eat as much grass as one sheep. On San Juan, few deer live around the warrens because the rabbits consume most of the food and eliminate reproduction of low-growing trees.