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.
Some French scientists love bunnies.
But in the H rault region in south-west France, a research team from Toulouse University is trying to vaccinate rabbits against myxomatosis. They've found that if they soak fleas in a solution of the vaccine for just thirty seconds, the fleas absorb a lot of the vaccine. For the next few days, the fleas can then pass this vaccine onto the rabbits whenever they bite them. This project was started and funded by hunters who were angry at the shortage of cute little bunnies to shoot and kill. So they end up with more bunnies to kill.