[Sca-cooks] hare vs rabbit
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Sep 2 05:39:33 PDT 2002
Also sprach Christina Nevin:
> > My big-ass (as my son would say) dictionary was of no help, so I will ask=
> you guys.... what is the differance between a hare and a rabbit. And which=
> one is a *cony*? The dictionary only said that a rabbit was a small hare. =
> Is that it?
>> Thanks!
>> Phillipa
>> ps... what does rabbit and/or hare taste like? and don't say chicken!!
>
>Actually, as far as I remember, rabbits and hares are not actually in the
>same family/genus. I could be wrong. Can anyone help out there?
Same order (Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas), same family
(Leporidae) different geni; hares are Lepus and rabbits are
Oryctalagus or Sylvilagus.
A coney, BTW, is a young rabbit, IIRC, but definitely not a hare.
Adamantius
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