Thank you for this fascinating talk about the much ignored hares! For the first time on RUclips the real reason why hares and rabbits eat their cecotropes is mentioned: to enable the digestion of cellulose. This is HUGE, and I wish more time had been spent on that, because this is precisely what gives hares and rabbits so much energy - the energy that was mentioned at the end as being needed to maintain two pregnancies, for example, but also to allow hares to explode in speed to 50 MPH and maintain 45 MPH plus accelerations and braking and direction changes! Indeed that's what distinguishes leporids from other herbivores that cannot have double pregnancies and run like hares while living exclusively off vegetation: the cecotrope-eating system of cellulose digestion: it allows them to use all the energy available in a plant, while having a small digestive system more like a carnivore's tract instead of a herbivore's! I hope more videos like this come out because we have only begun to learn how unique hares and rabbits are.
Thank you for this fascinating talk about the much ignored hares! For the first time on RUclips the real reason why hares and rabbits eat their cecotropes is mentioned: to enable the digestion of cellulose. This is HUGE, and I wish more time had been spent on that, because this is precisely what gives hares and rabbits so much energy - the energy that was mentioned at the end as being needed to maintain two pregnancies, for example, but also to allow hares to explode in speed to 50 MPH and maintain 45 MPH plus accelerations and braking and direction changes! Indeed that's what distinguishes leporids from other herbivores that cannot have double pregnancies and run like hares while living exclusively off vegetation: the cecotrope-eating system of cellulose digestion: it allows them to use all the energy available in a plant, while having a small digestive system more like a carnivore's tract instead of a herbivore's! I hope more videos like this come out because we have only begun to learn how unique hares and rabbits are.
I've been kind of emotional lately and looked up videos about hares and found this! It's a very lovely presentation, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you! 🥺
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