MadSci Network: Zoology |
Some ideas: food preference--you might compare foods that rabbits would normally eat in the wild (grasses and other plants in your lawn) with foods rabbits only get in captivity (rabbit chow, or exotic things like fruits or vegetables that don't normally grow in your area); OR you might compare different types of common vegetables (even different types of lettuce) that have different nutritional contents to see if the rabbits prefer more nutritious foods (you could focus on the amount of fat in the different foods, or vitamins, or calories, or almost anything--all this information is available in nutritional tables in books) habitat preference--you might compare different types of nest boxes; for example, ones made of different types of materials (wood versus plastic) OR ones containing different types of bedding (wood shavings versus cloth or straw or no bedding at all) learning--you could try training the rabbits (using a food reward) to do certain tasks like running a simple maze, or going through an "obstacle course" in a set pattern (for example, around the coffee can to the left, over the pile of books and through the hole in the cardboard box); you could compare different rabbits based on their sex or age (for example, do females or younger rabbits learn faster or remember longer than males?). Good luck!
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