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23 unusual facts about Rabbit


A Feather in His Hare

This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones that features the modern design of Bugs instead of the version Jones used from Super-Rabbit to Hair-Raising Hare, which was a shorter and slightly differed version of the character.

Animals of Yellowstone

Squirrel, Rabbit, vole, mice, and shrew species are common, but many are nocturnal and rarely seen by visitors.

Bid Euchre

The names Pfeffer, Hasenpfeffer, and Double Hasenpfeffer (also known as Hoss or Pepper), come from "Hasenpfeffer", a German dish of marinated and stewed trimmings of hare.

Coyote Falls

It is the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner movie to be made into CGI in 3D (the first 3-D WB cartoon since 1954's Lumber Jack-Rabbit) and it was released with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Development of Bugs Bunny

Elmer's Pet Rabbit, originally intended and meant to be the final experimental cartoon, bore a title card shoehorned in between the opening credits and the start of the story reading, "Starring Bugs Bunny" (the first on-screen use of that name), but nevertheless featured the same initial off-model versions of Elmer and the hare seen in ...Camera.

In the Touchstone Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the character can be seen walking through the Maroon Cartoon studio lot for a few seconds before the shot changes.

A title card saying "featuring Bugs Bunny" was slapped onto Elmer's Pet Rabbit after initial production of that cartoon wrapped up, though that cartoon had the rabbit carry the pre-Wild Hare characteristics.

Devil's Gate Pass

Numerous other animals have been spotted in the area around the pass including American Badger, Black Bear, Chipmunk, Cougar, Coyote, Rabbit, Rubber Boa, Sage Grouse, and Vole.

Drinking Buddies

After the bar, Kate rides her bike over to her socially awkward, but extremely nice boyfriend's apartment where he gives her dinner and a copy of Rabbit, Run.

Fly tying

Rabbit, mink, muskrat, fox, bear, squirrel and other furs, deer, elk, moose hair and chicken, pheasant, turkey, duck, goose and partridge feathers were and still are commonly incorporated into artificial flies.

Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas

After reprimanding a group of cheaters, he notices that lucky medals, four leaf clovers, horse shoes or rabbit's feet are not allowed, and realizes he's been duped.

Javier Saviola

Nicknamed El Conejo (The Rabbit), Buenos Aires-born Saviola made his debut for Club Atlético River Plate at the age of 16, and went on to be a prolific goalscorer for the club.

Kamuflirovannyi Letnyi Maskirovochnyi Kombinezon

The patterns on it sometimes resembled the colossal ears of a bunny rabbit, and the look of sunlight on the forest floor.

Montacute House

The fictional location for the earlier Wallace and Gromit film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tottington Hall, was also based on Montacute House.

Nesolagus

Nesolagus is a genus of rabbits containing three species of striped rabbit, the Annamite Striped Rabbit, the Sumatran Striped Rabbit, and that of the extinct species "sinensis".

Rabbit-proof fence

Others used were mulga, wodjil, pine, and Tea tree, based on where it could be found close to where the fence was to be built.

Rabbit-skin glue

Setting of the glue occurs with cooling and drying, so the working time is very short, on the order of minutes, to stick the parts together and get full strength, unlike PVA glue which might provide 20–30 minutes.

Rabbit's Moon

Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the moon (in which a rabbit lives - a concept found in both Japanese and Aztec mythology), and his futile attempts to jump up and catch it.

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park

Throughout the park there are a great variety of mammals: Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Cougar, Bobcat, Ringtail Cat, Coyote, Rabbit, Squirrel and more than 30 species of Bats.

Sky Movies

Sky Movies regularly sponsors the theatrical premieres of major film titles – such as Shrek 2, The Incredibles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Storrington

Rabbit breeding was another significant industry and an association with this is evidenced by the number of local place names including 'The Warren', such as Warren Hill, Sullington Warren and Warren Croft.

The Magilla Gorilla Show

Ricochet Rabbit (voiced by Don Messick) works as the sheriff of Hoop N' Holler with his deputy Droop-a-Long Coyote (voiced by Mel Blanc).

Yeborobo

The six members of Yeborobo are in, or have been in over 20 other Mentalist bands between them, including Esiotrot, Tea And Toast Band, Neither Do I, Gasp! Cracking Eggs, Happy Crayon, Scrotal Volcano, Rabbit's Moon, Ten-Foot Blood Skull, CATTLE, Asparagus Peru, Draculasaurus, Nasty Bee, Having Brunch With Peter, Shink, Pig Shackle, Dog Chocolate, Abodigidal, and many more.


14 Carrot Rabbit

The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon, and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) whose attempts are to steal other people's gold.

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers.

Baby Buggy Bunny

The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster (a play on words on Baby Face Nelson) who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the disguise of an orphan baby to get it back.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

Wildlife that may be observed on the fell includes rabbit, hare, roe deer, stoat, weasel, red fox, badger, hedgehog, mole, grey squirrel and the otter.

Ben Hardaway

Animator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway inadvertently christened him when "his casual sketch of a proposed rabbit character" was labeled "Bugs's Bunny" by a fellow employee, as described in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Black Welsh Mountain sheep

The Band State Radio released the song "Black Welsh Mountain" on their 2012 album Rabbit Inn Rebellion with Nettwerk Music.

Blue of Sint-Niklaas

The Van Beveren, also a fur-rabbit breed, is family and has been bred in the same region of Flanders, the Waasland.

It has been bred since the 19th century, near the city of Sint-Niklaas, to supply the local fur-industry, and is thereby one of the oldest fur-rabbit breeds of the world.

Bob Givens

For the 1940 cartoon A Wild Hare, Avery asked Givens to redesign a rabbit character previously designed by director Ben Hardaway and character designer Charles Thorson, which Avery thought had potential, but was "too cute" in his existing design.

Boxbomb

The band plans to release the EP, titled Run Rabbit Run (Tragic Hero Records) in early 2009.

Chameleon Twist

The protagonist of the game is a blue chameleon named Davy who, upon following a rabbit (closely resembling Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) into a magical hole in the ground, finds he has taken on a humanoid form.

Chameleon Twist 2

Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred, and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit (closely resembling Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky.

Claire Chitham

Having studied in New York and Los Angeles, Chitham has also appeared in a number of stage productions, including Rabbit, by Nina Raine; The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard; and The Only Child, by Simon Stone.

Clemens Hasse

He was the German dubbing voice of Eddie Albert, Lou Costello, José Ferrer, Oliver Hardy, Sid James and also the voice of the white rabbit in Disneys Alice in Wonderland.

Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit

The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is an isolated population of pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) native only to a single area of Washington state called the Columbia Basin.

Cruelty-free

For example reconstructed human epidermis—which uses human skin donated from cosmetic surgery to replace the rabbit Draize skin test—is more relevant to human reactions.

Cryptex

In "Down the Rabbit Hole", a fourth season episode of the American TV series The Vampire Diaries, depicts a sword with a cryptex device under its hilt.

Great Guns!

Great Guns! has been released on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD series in the DVD set The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

J. S. Harry

A recurrent character in her work is Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who name-drops philosophers such as Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein and A. J. Ayer while popping up in the midst of topical events such as the Gulf War.

Japanese American National Museum

Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is on exhibit from July 9 through October 30, 2011.

Jess Roden

It was recorded at Olympic and Basing St Studios in London as well as at Sea Saint Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana, and included contributions from Allen Toussaint and The Meters from the US sessions and in London, "Rabbit" John Bundrick and Mick Weaver (keyboards), Steve Webb (guitar), Richard Bailey and Simon Kirke (drums).

Jodi Long

In addition to her credited roles, Long appeared uncredited in a brief black-and-white cut-scene in the music video for Bizarre Love Triangle by the British group New Order, directed by American artist Robert Longo, in which she argues with E. Max Frye (where she emphatically declares "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!").

José Núñez de Cáceres

he Know to all the classics fabu-lists (Aesop, Phaedrus, Jean de La Fontaine, Samaniego and Tomás de Iriarte and, consciously he influenced, especially in the use of character animals : eagle, bee, Donkey, Stork, Rabbit, Lamb, Owl, Wolf, Mule, Palomo, Raposa.

Killer rabbit

Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, a 1979 incident involving a swamp rabbit trying to board President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat

Kroke

As a result, joint recording sessions at Real World Studios with other musicians led to material from the band being subsequently used by Peter Gabriel on his album Long Walk Home- music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Kurt Maetzig

He also directed the film Das Kaninchen bin ich (The Rabbit is Me) (1965), which was one of twelve films that were banned in East Germany after the 11th Plenum of the SED's Central Committee for being too critical of the internal social problems within the country.

Masato Uchiyama

Kamen Rider 555 (2003) - Kobayashi Yoshio/Rabbit Orphnoch(ep. 24-25)

Mr. McGregor

In HBO's 1991 animated musical adaptation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (under their Storybook Musicals banner), Mr. McGregor was voiced by Kevin Clash.

Nesolagus

The Sumatran Striped Rabbit has been found in the Barisan Mountains in western Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Annamite Striped Rabbit has been found in the Annamite mountains on the border between Vietnam and Laos.

Nhek Dim

His cartoon "The Wise Rabbit" won a 1967 student competition organized by Walt Disney.

Oregon Coast Range

Other mammals here are Mountain beaver, beavers, coyote, mink, river otter, mountain lion, porcupines, skunks, and brush rabbit.

Pig-footed bandicoot

The cause of the extinction remains uncertain: neither of the two most destructive introduced exterminator species, the fox and the rabbit, had yet arrived in south-west Western Australia when the pig-footed bandicoot disappeared from that area.

Rabbit in the Moon

As remixers, Rabbit In the Moon has reworked songs by artists such as Depeche Mode ("Waiting for the Night"), Tori Amos ("Precious Things"), Sarah McLachlan ("Fear", "Possession"), Orbital ("Are We Here?"), Smashing Pumpkins ("The End Is the Beginning Is the End"), Goldie ("Inner City Life"), White Zombie ("Blood, Milk and Sky") and Delerium ("Euphoria").

Rabbit Kekai

The Rabbit Kekai Keiki Surf Contest is held every year at Waikiki Beach to promote surfing for Hawaii's children (keiki means "child" or "little kid" in the Hawaiian language).

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

Rafi Haladjian

Among others, he is known as the co-creator of the wireless-connected rabbit Nabaztag one of the pioneering icons of the Internet of Things.

Richard Adams

The Phoenix Tree (1980, a collection by various authors, includes "The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle" from Watership Down) ISBN 978-0-380-76380-1

Shaktoolik, Alaska

Fish, crab, moose, beluga whale, caribou, seal, rabbit, geese, cranes, ducks, ptarmigan, (including these eggs) berries, greens, and roots are also primary subsistence food sources.

Steve Flett

The former features two tracks which also turned up in the Ooberman catalogue - Fly Around The World, which features vocals by Ooberman vocalist Sophia Churney and was released as a b-side to Beany Bean, and Kill The Rabbit, which was featured in the e-single ZIP file of Heavy Duty.

Swamp rabbit

In 1979, the swamp rabbit species enjoyed a brief stint of notoriety when one swamp rabbit had a close encounter with Jimmy Carter.

The Love-Ins

Cross imagines that she's Alice and meets men dressed in White Rabbit costumes as well as other representations of characters from Lewis Carroll's story over the course of a lengthy free-form disco musical sequence.

The Thundermans

Dana Snyder as Dr. Colosso (voice), one of the world's greatest villain, but he is now a rabbit which Hank turned him into when he was still Thunderman.

The White Rabbit Project

White Rabbit enhances PTP to achieve sub-nanosecond accuracy in the timing network.

Tony Braunagel

The band also included Terry Wilson-Slesser on vocals and later John "Rabbit" Bundrick, who replaced Montgomery on keyboards following the release of the band’s first album The Band Plays On.

Two Curious Puppies

In Prest-O Change-O, their second cartoon, they are pursued by a dog catcher and must hide in a house that is owned by the magician Sham Fu and his pet rabbit, a prototype Bugs Bunny.