And, My Favorite Types of Rabbits
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If we take a look at some books about rabbits (and hare), there are so many types of rabbits that we know to date. In general, we can say there are two major categories of rabbits: free rabbits and domestic rabbits.

Free rabbits are those who live in wild nature, the ones that don’t live around humans. Hares and wild rabbits are two considered as free rabbits. Although hares and rabbits are different animals, both of terms are used interchangeably. For example people call domesticated rabbits originated from Belgium known as Belgian hare, in fact they are rabbit. While people call hare in America as Jackrabbit, but they are hare.

And, domestic rabbits are those who domesticated by humans for commercial purposes known as commercial rabbits, or for pets known as pet rabbits. Although now we can find domestic rabbits around the world, originally they were domesticated from one species only of European rabbits (Oryctolagus Cuniculus) that live across Europe and northern Africa.

There are many different types of domestic rabbits based on size or weight…

	Dwarf rabbits are between 0.9 – 1.5 Kg such as: Lionhead, Holland Lop, Netherland Dwarf, Polish, Polish Dwarf, Dwarf Hotot, Jersey Wooly, etc.
	Small rabbits are between 1.5 – 2.5 Kg such as: Dutch, American Fuzzy Lop, Mini Lop, Dwarf Lop, Himalayan, Mini Rex, etc.
	Medium rabbits are between 2.5 – 4 Kg such as: Chinchilla, English Angora, French Angora, Rex, Belgian Hare, etc.
	Large rabbits are between 4 - 5 Kg such as: English Lop, Satin, Californian, New Zealand White, etc.
	Huge or giant rabbits are 5 – 8 Kg or more such as: French Lop, Flemish Giant, British Giant, Checkered Giant, etc.

Beside dwarf, S-M-L and giant size of rabbits, known also some types of mini rabbits. They are called mini because they are similar to original types except the size that smaller or much smaller. For example Mini Rex is Rex rabbit that smaller in size, and Mini Lop is miniature of typical Lop rabbit.

Wow.. so many types of rabbits! Which one is your favorite?