There are about 300,000,000 rabbits in Australia, and if you lined them up end to end they would stretch 90,000 kilometres - more than twice around the equator. Rabbits were once thought to belong to the rat family. But there are some important differences.
Rodents have only one pair of upper incisors.
However both my mother and I have only the central incisors. In the wild, rabbits can range from 25 cm long and 400 g in weight right up to 53 cm long and 2.7 kg in weight. However some domestic rabbits have been bred to be much larger, and the Flemish giant rabbit can weigh more than 7 kg. About 3,000,000 wild rabbits are caught each year for their meat and fur. The rabbit industry employs three hundred people and operates ten abattoirs.