[ **up: [[Eutherians]]** ] --- # Rabbits / Leporidae (Family) --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - [[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]] - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians]] - [[Placentals|Eutherians]] - [[Lagomorphs|Largomorpha (Order)]] - [[Rabbits|Leporidae (Family)]] ------- ## Reproduction ### Ovulation Rabbits do not have an [[Oestrous|oestrus]] cycle; instead, they are “induced to ovulate by the act of mating and are able to conceive at almost any arbitrary moment”.[^1] ### Lactation Rabbits have a unique “circadian rhythm of [[Lactation|lactation]].”[^2] [[2025-0320. The rabbit mammary pheromone, 2-methylbut-2-enal, triggers the 'suckling of rabbit pup'.|The rabbit mammary pheromone, 2-methylbut-2-enal, triggers the 'suckling of rabbit pup'.]][^3] (*See:* [[2-methylbut-2-enal (Pheromone)]]) [^1]: ‘Estrous cycle’, *Wikipedia*, updated 19 February 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrous_cycle. [^2]: Gabriela González-Mariscal and Enrique Meza, ‘[[Caba, González-Mariscal & Mesa. ‘Circadian Rhythms and Clock Genes in Reproduction_ Insights From Behavior and the Female Rabbit’s Brain’, 2018.|Circadian Rhythms and Clock Genes in Reproduction: Insights From Behavior and the Female Rabbit’s Brain]]’, *Frontiers in Endocrinology* 9, Article 106 (March 2018), p. 1. [^3]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740.