When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an rabbit eating watermelon commission. Rabbits are social animals, with colonies of the fluffy mammal occupying most of the world’s land masses.

Rabbits are small mammals with fluffy, short tails, whiskers and distinctive long ears. Rabbits and hares are in the same taxonomic family, Leporidae, but they are in different genera. Some rabbits are about the size of a cat, and some can grow to be as big as a small child. Small rabbits, such as pygmy rabbits, can be as little as 9. What’s the difference between rabbits and hares?