Rabbits are herbivores that favor green plants like grasses, clover and cabbage. However, rabbits are adaptable, and their diets adjust to the change of seasons and to their habitat. For example, from spring to fall, rabbits dine on grass, vegetables, fruits and flowers.
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Know any interesting facts about Groundhogs? During winter months, groundhogs live underground in burrows that they create by digging. Besides being a place for hibernation, burrows are also where mating takes place and where offspring are born. One reason groundhogs do not venture very far from the burrow is that staying close allows them to avoid predators by quickly returning to safety. Even in the summer and fall, groundhogs prefer to remain hidden when not foraging for food.
Crops, flowers and grass can be stripped away by these herbivorous animals. A burrow may appear to simply be a hole in the ground, but there may be more than meets the eye.
Groundhog burrows are elaborate tunnel structures and contain different chambers for nesting, raising offspring and defecating. When they are mature, they typically leave their mother to dig their own homes.
Groundhogs live around three to six years. According to tradition, if the groundhog sees its shadow on February 2, there will be six more weeks of winter. This idea gave rise to Groundhog Day. The tradition of relying on rodents as forecasters may date back to the early days of Christianity in Europe, when clear skies on Candlemas Day Feb.
In Germany, the tradition morphed into a myth that if the sun came out on Candlemas, a hedgehog would cast its shadow, predicting snow all the way into May. When German immigrants settled in Pennsylvania, they transferred the tradition onto local fauna, replacing hedgehogs with groundhogs.
But how accurate is this method of weather prediction? The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, has records from more than years. On Groundhog Day, the club holds a "solemn" ceremony as a groundhog, named Phil, is pulled from a "burrow" in front of TV cameras and cheering crowds.
The club says Phil has predicted 99 forecasts of more winter and 15 early springs. According to data from the Stormfax Almanac, Phil's predictions have been correct only 39 percent of the time in his hometown of Punxsutawney.
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