Rabbits
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- Field guideReading browse, rubs, and bark signPlants preserve feeding and rubbing sign after an animal has gone. Read the damaged edge, its height and extent, nearby tracks or droppings, and the plant's response before assigning a maker.
- Field guideReading scat & signMost of the time the animal is gone and the ground is too hard for prints. Sign is what remains, and it is often more specific than a track.
- Field guideDomestication vs. tamingHabituation, learning, handling, and conditioning can reduce one individual's fear of people without changing its ancestry. Domestication reshapes populations through selection, drift, management, and adaptation to human-created niches. Domestic individuals can be wary or aggressive, and tame individuals can remain members of wild lineages.
- Field guideHow to read animal tracksA track is a sentence about an animal that has already left. Learn to read the shape, the count, and above all the pattern the prints make together.