The Life of the Rabbit (1945)
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The British Council Film Collection is an archive of more than 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised by means of a generous donation by Google, the films are now yours to view, to download and to play with for the first time.
The Life of the Rabbit is a short but charming informational piece on the habits, traits and lifecycle of the humble rabbit. The film follows both 'real' and animated creatures, depicting a range of activities from daily grooming to the traversing of tunnels and dens, sometimes at exceptionally high speed, whilst being pursued by a rogue pole cat with a desire for a rabbit dinner.
Details of the reproductive processes of the rabbit are the perfect excuse for a succession of undeniably cute shots of bunnies as they develop through the beginning stages of their lives; this narrative also acting as an educational lesson in reproduction arguably designed to be translatable to a more 'human' case study.
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The rabbit is described as an inedible rodent . The rabbit was not a rodent nor was
it inedible it was enjoyed by many as meat particularly after harvesting the wheat. Many young London evacuees in the country never ever realised what they ate.
Raise your hand if “Watership Down” comes to mind.
Yesss!
✋ yep
Yes very dark!
@@theotheseaeagle Oi Oi snowflake alert
Well it should . Richard Adams used this study as an informed backdrop to the writing of the Watership Down.
so young rabbits leave home and fend for them selves at about one month old? wow they grow up fast.
after ww2 i used to go to liverpool street station from croydon in a ex american army lorry to pick up hundreds of dead rabbits brought down from norfolk as meat was still on ration on the way back he used to stuff 3 rabbits up my jumper and drop me off near were we lived to take home to my mother
so people in england used to eat dead rabbits?
@@FrancisMarcosGaming
What did you think,
that we were Savages and ate them Alive...🤣
i think i have finally learned how to take care of rabbits
The film is incorrect. The rabbit is NOT in the rodent family, but rather a lagomorph.
Indeed
They also failed to mention that there are rabbits native to the Americas as well.
@@KFrost-fx7dt I was surprised at that as well. Maybe the confusion was due to the fact that cottontails don't dig burrows but have shallow nests like hares. And "rodents"? I don't think so!
Frederickewing well you have to understand this was 1945, they didn’t know
Fredrickwing know one care what you think or what say
Rabbits arent rodents actually..
They used to be classified as rodents, this documentary is now outdated
neither are people, but i still call them that sometimes
That's no ordinary rabbit...
The young of to day are not very knowledgeable about the past ,or the present .
We still can buy rabbits in our shops to day to eat , they are not pets ,but food to eat .
I remember my Mother making a rabbit stew, It taste just like chicken ,In years to come
people will look back ,and say ,You ate chickens ,how awful,
Rabbits are also Pets...
3:03 A smart rabbit do that 👏 and SPEED RUNNER EVER
i get people who kill bunnys for Food or something they need but not for fun!
Thank you
Very nicely presented
Great, thanks !
THANK YOU
i thought 10:59 was another part of their underground home
VERY NICE
Nice. Thank you
My Grandfather was known as Bunny Rumming as my ancestors were poor living in the Wiltshire countryside. So he was a master at catching rabbits, its the only meat they ate apart from poaching pheasant. My Grandfather told my Father, My Father told me i told my two Daughters and my seven Grandchildren for them hopefully to tell there Children this rhyme. A Rabbits a Rabbit,a Bunnies a Bunny, If you lift up its tail you see something funny.Not many Rumming left now as i had two Daughters.
and your sad
A rabbit's a rabbit. A bunny's a bunny. If you lift up it's tail, you see something funny. Yeah, it's bollocks!
Sounds like the 4th Doctor
This video is very heavily biased against the rabbit.
kind of pitiful that i was searching for a doc on life of wild rabbits and all i could really find was this vintage one, a modern kind o typically not that great brit doc, that was mixed with other ground animals, annoyingly in a scientific, zoo like setting, in the typical normal style now days where they go from one 'story' or animal for a bit, then to the next for a bit, then the next for a bit, then back to rabbits for a bit, then continue that stupid cycle throughout.. and then i found tons of pet bunny vids and farm bunny stuff.. and tons of cartoons
you need veg and some fat (pork) maybe. to have a balanced meal of rabbit. read how Australia fencers died by just eating Rabbit. 85 year old Wiltshire/Dorset man.
the person picking up the babies isnt to gentle,
Hardly any rabbits in the English countryside now. I go on long walks in Somerset and the Mendips. Places where 30 years ago, you would be tripping over rabbits, there's now no evidence of them at all. No burrows, no droppings. I see more Hares than rabbits now.
Probably Foxes and dogs, plus more people.
A rabbit eat my familys crops and my little brother starved to death.
I lov drawing
Sorry but I've shot and killed thousands of them over the years but still have respect for them, I have them as pets my kids love them too, I breed them as a child but as I grew up I spent most of my childhood on farms and we had to do a lot of vermin control and that's what I did as a part of my job, I'm also gunsmith but did vermin control for my grandads farm and other farmers, as it's law for farmers to keep them under control on land they own and they do a lot of damage, but still always love watching them and all the other wildlife, I suppose what I'm trying to say is things like this has to be done but I get a lot of people saying that it wrong and I'm cruel and evil, it is what it is but that doesn't make me a monster and I can still love my wildlife, I also protect badgers and deer and fox I will not shoot what does not need to be shot, life is a somewhat strange balance between these types of things as it's in my blood and apart of my way of life as a vermin controller, just thought I'd try and get others to understand we not all just shooting for the sake of it, it's a fine line that some don't understand.
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