Editing Rabbit (section)

===Habitat and range===
[[File:Swamp Rabbit- Sylvilagus aquaticus (50743049841).jpg|thumb|''[[Sylvilagus aquaticus]]'' (swamp rabbit) in its natural habitat]]
Rabbit habitats include forests, steppes, plateaus, deserts,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ge |first1=Deyan |last2=Wen |first2=Zhixin |last3=Xia |first3=Lin |last4=Zhang |first4=Zhaoqun |last5=Erbajeva |first5=Margarita |last6=Huang |first6=Chengming |last7=Yang |first7=Qisen |date=2013-04-03 |editor-last=Evans |editor-first=Alistair Robert |title=Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=e59668 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0059668 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=3616043 |pmid=23573205|bibcode=2013PLoSO...859668G }}</ref> and swamps.<ref name="ADW">[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Sylvilagus_aquaticus/ ''Sylvilagus aquaticus'' (swamp rabbit)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527121510/http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Sylvilagus_aquaticus/|date=2013-05-27}}, [[Animal Diversity Web]], [[University of Michigan Museum of Natural History|University of Michigan Museum of Zoology]].</ref> Some species, such as the [[volcano rabbit]] (''Romerolagus diazi'') have especially limited distribution due to their habitat needs.<ref>{{Citation |last=Caravaggi |first=Anthony |title=Lagomorpha Life History |date=2022 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior |pages=3826–3834 |editor-last=Vonk |editor-first=Jennifer |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1206 |access-date=2024-11-13 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1206 |isbn=978-3-319-55064-0 |editor2-last=Shackelford |editor2-first=Todd K.}}</ref> Rabbits live in groups, or colonies, varying in behavior depending on species and often using the [[burrow]]s of other animals or creating nests in holes.{{Sfn|Varga|2013|p=3-4}} The [[European rabbit]] notably lives in extensive burrow networks called ''warrens''.<ref name="EcologyOcun">{{Cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1744-7348.1940.tb07522.x |title=The ecology and population dynamics of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) |last=Southern |first=H. N. |journal=Annals of Applied Biology |date=November 1940 |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=509–526}}</ref>

Rabbits are native to North America, southwestern Europe, Southeast Asia, [[Sumatra]], some islands of Japan, and parts of Africa and South America. They are not naturally found in most of [[Eurasia]], where a number of species of [[hare]]s are present.<ref name=Marshall1982 /> A 2003 study on domestic rabbits in China found that "(so-called) Chinese rabbits were introduced from Europe", and that "genetic diversity in Chinese rabbits was very low".<ref name=":4" />

Rabbits first entered South America relatively recently, as part of the [[Great American Interchange]].<ref name=Marshall1982>{{Cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Larry G. |last2=Webb |first2=S. David |last3=Sepkoski |first3=J. John |last4=Raup |first4=David M. |date=1982 |title=Mammalian Evolution and the Great American Interchange |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1688046 |journal=Science |volume=215 |issue=4538 |pages=1351–1357 |doi=10.1126/science.215.4538.1351 |jstor=1688046 |pmid=17753000 |bibcode=1982Sci...215.1351M |issn=0036-8075}}</ref> Much of the continent was considered to have just one species of rabbit, the [[tapeti]],<ref name="Emmons 1997">{{cite book |author1=Emmons |first=Louise H. |url=https://archive.org/details/neotropicalrainf0000emmo/mode/2up |title=Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide |author2=Feer, Francois |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1990 |pages=227–228 |language=en |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{Efn|In addition to the common tapeti, several other species in genus ''Sylvilagus'' are known to inhabit South and Central America: the [[Andean tapeti]], the [[Central American tapeti]], the [[coastal tapeti]], the [[Santa Marta tapeti]], and the [[Venezuelan lowland rabbit]].}} and most of South America's [[Southern Cone]] has had no rabbits until the introduction of the European rabbit, which has been introduced to many places around the world,<ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica" /> in the late 19th century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cassini |first1=Marcelo H. |last2=Rivas |first2=Luciano |date=August 2023 |title=Lack of evidence of significant impact of European rabbits on Patagonian forest regeneration |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10344-023-01710-1 |journal=European Journal of Wildlife Research |language=en |volume=69 |issue=4 |page=74 |doi=10.1007/s10344-023-01710-1 |bibcode=2023EJWR...69...74C |issn=1612-4642}}</ref>

Rabbits have been [[Animals in space|launched into space orbit]].<ref name=Beischer1962>{{cite journal |author1=Beischer, DE |author2=Fregly, AR |title=Animals and man in space. A chronology and annotated bibliography through the year 1960 |journal=US Naval School of Aviation Medicine |volume=ONR TR ACR-64 |issue=AD0272581 |year=1962 |url=https://archive.org/details/AnimalsAndManInSpaceChronologyAndBibliography |access-date=10 September 2024 }}</ref>