What type of animal is a rabbit?

Question

eg, mammel, rodent etc.

Answer 1

They are a branch of mammal called a lagomorph. They are not rodents.

http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/1996summer/stories/counterpoints.html

Answer 2

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

Thats the order of classification.
Rabbits used to be rodents until about 20 years ago. They were reclassified as Lagamorph.
Rodents include rats and mice.
Lagamorphs and rodents are both Mammals. Mammals give birth to live young and feed them on milk.

Answer 3

Rabbits are mammals, so are rodents. Rabbits used to be classified in the order rodentia (rodents), but are now classified in the order Lagomorpha, because scientists feel that they are different enough to belong in their own group. They belong to kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Lagomorpha and family Leporidea. That is the full taxonomy except genus and species, as there are many.
Also in Lagomorpha are hares and pikas.
Besides all that, rabbits are herbivores (plant eaters), vertebrates, pets, and a million other things.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Rodents are mammals. Mammals are those animals that feed their young by milk (in basic terms). Rabbits are mammals but not rodents. They have their own separate grouping called Lagomorphs (as thers have mentioned). Close to rodents but not quite!

Answer 5

They are mammals as they need air to breathe, have fur, give live birth, and are warm blooded. They are not rodents and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. They are more related to horses than rats. They are in the family called lagomorphs.

"Lagomorphs (loģ o-moŕ fs)(Gr. lagos, hare: + morphē, form) differ from rodents in that:

they have four (not two as in rodents) incisors in the upper jaw;
they will only eat vegetation (unlike rodents, who will eat meat and vegetation)
the male's scrotum is in front of the penis;
the penis has no bone (baculum) as does the rodents'; and
they will re-digest first time droppings (called cecotropes) to obtain the most from their plant diet.
They resemble rodents, however, in that their teeth grow throughout their life, thus necessitating constant chewing to keep them from growing too long." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagomorpha

Answer 6

They are mammels - they are from a group called leporidae which are also part of the lagomorpha family. They are not rodents.

Answer 7

Rabbits are mammals, not rodents. My 11 year old son answered this for you.

Answer 8

It's a mammal. The myth that it was a rodent was done away years ago. http://www.rabbit.org

Answer 9

rodent

Answer 10

rodent