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rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (''Oryctolagus cuniculus''), cottontail rabbits (genus ''Sylvilagus''; 13 species), and the Amami rabbit (''Pentalagus furnessi'', an endangered species on Amami Ōshima, Japan). There are many other species of rabbit, and these, along with pikas and hares, make up the order Lagomorpha. The male is called a ''buck'' and the female is a ''doe''; a young rabbit is a ''kitten'' or ''kit''.
==Habitat and range==
Rabbit habitats, or "rabbitats", include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands.〔 Rabbits live in groups, and the best known species, the European rabbit, lives in underground burrows, or rabbit holes. A group of burrows is called a warren.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Rabbit Habitats )〕
More than half the world's rabbit population resides in North America.〔 They are also native to southwestern Europe, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, some islands of Japan, and in parts of Africa and South America. They are not naturally found in most of Eurasia, where a number of species of hares are present. Rabbits first entered South America relatively recently, as part of the Great American Interchange. Much of the continent has just one species of rabbit, the tapeti, while most of South America's southern cone is without rabbits.
The European rabbit has been introduced to many places around the world.〔
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