camo rabbit!

Most rabbits run away from me but this one tried being invisible, like it new how well it would blend in with the ground :D

 

Aww, its only a baby.

 

Awwwww I must say I don't understand why more people don't eat rabbit

 

They've learnt to exploit a major flaw in the vision of most predators.

Its a bit technical, but vision isn't what we think it is. Humans have a blind spot right in the centre of our field of vision. We are also very bad at colour perception. However, what we are very good at, like most creatures, is the perception of movement.

"But I don't have a blind spot" I hear most people say. We all do. The trick is our eyes are rarely perfectly still. They move about, sometimes imperceptibly, all the time. The visual cortex in the brain does the rest, filling in all the gaps.

When something moves, we notice it immediately. If you were hunting, and something in your field of vision moved, the very first thing your brain interprets is that something has moved. Next it decides the general shape and size of what moved. Then it fills in some detail in monochrome, and finally, if there's time, it fills in the colour detail.

Think about the last time something startled you. I bet the very thing you knew was that something had moved, and its approximate size and location. No detail.

Rabbits (and many other animals) know this instinctively, and are programmed to respond to threats accordingly. The notion of being 'frozen with terror' is just a preprogrammed response to keep perfectly still so as to hide when there really is nowhere to hide. Predators instinctively know it too. Think about the last time you were out and about and something grabbed your attention suddenly and you weren't sure straight away what it was. So often we just stop dead, go quiet, wait and watch.

Its perfectly safe as long as you don't eat the liver, and cook the bits you do eat properly.

 

Yea I was wondering if the rabbit was too scared to move or it had decided to blend in and stay put...it was shaking a bit so I totally agree with your post clueless :D

 

That baby fox I had rescued and then eventually released after a few days was spotted on different occasions wandering in the garden in the complete open space with no worry whatsoever...

 

I was out looking for puffballs around mid day, so scanning around and not looking by my feet, when a hare suddenly made a run for it from about 1 metre in front of me.

Why it waited until I almost trod on it I don't know, perhaps it was the dog with me that made it stay put?

 

Maybe you or the dog spooked it so instead of hiding it decided to bolt.

 

I think it was more likely that it realised a size 10½ walking boot was about to tread on it.